Browse Glossary Terms
A
- The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (c. 1983 - )
- ACP
- see Adolescent Community Placement - ACPP
- see The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (c. 1983 - ) - Adolescent Community Placement
- Adoption
B
- Baby Farming (c. 1867 - )
- Benevolent Asylum (c. 1850 - )
- Boarding Out (c. 1860 - )
- Bring Up
- BU
- see Bring Up
C
- Care Leavers
- Child or young person in need of care and protection (1954 - )
- Child protection files (1989 - ), State of Victoria
- Child Rescue (c. 1880 - c. 1910)
- Child Saving
- see Child Rescue (c. 1880 - c. 1910) - Children in Koori society ( - 1835)
- Children's village (c. 1870 - c. 1970)
- Closed records
- see Conditional Access to Records - Community Service Organisation
- Conditional Access to Records
- Cottage home (c. 1870 - c. 1970)
- CSO
- see Community Service Organisation
E
F
- Family cottage
- see Cottage home (c. 1870 - c. 1970) - Family group home
- Farm school
- Female rescue (1850s - 1960s)
- Forgotten Australians (c. 2004 - )
- Foster Care
G
H
I
- Illegitimacy
- In need of care and protection
- INCP
- see In need of care and protection - Industrial school (c. 1864 - c. 1887)
J
- Juvenile delinquency
- see Juvenile offending - Juvenile hostel
- see Hostel - Juvenile Justice Centre
- see Youth Training Centre - Juvenile offending
- Juvenile school
- Juvenile school
- see Reformatory (1864 - c. 1954)
K
L
M
N
- Neglected Child (c. 1864 - )
- NFPA
- see No fixed place of abode - No fixed place of abode
- No visible means of support
- Not provided with sufficient nursing
- NPSN
- see Not provided with sufficient nursing - NVMS
- see No visible means of support
O
P
- Permanent Care
- Physical Mental and Emotional Development in Jeapordy
- PMED
- see Physical Mental and Emotional Development in Jeapordy - Practice of separating siblings
- see Siblings in Care
R
- RDO
- see Returned per Directors Orders - Reformatory (1864 - c. 1954)
- Reformatory school
- see Reformatory (1864 - c. 1954) - Residential Care
- Returned per Directors Orders
S
- SCIS
- see Statutory Client Information System - Select Committee
- Separation of Siblings
- see Siblings in Care - Sibling Separation
- see Siblings in Care - Siblings in Care
- Single mothers
- see Unmarried mothers - State of Victoria, Child protection files (1989 - )
- State of Victoria, Wardship files (1864 - 1989)
- State Ward (c. 1880 - 1990s)
- Statutory Client Information System
- Stolen Generations (c. 1981 - )
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V
W
- Ward of state
- see State Ward (c. 1880 - 1990s) - 'Wardies'
- see Care Leavers - Wardship files (1864 - 1989), State of Victoria