List of Functions

A
B
C
D
F
G
H
I
J
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
W
Y

A: Adoption Agency; Adoption Information Service; Advisory Council; Advocacy body

B: Babies' Home; Benevolent Asylum

C: Care Provider; Child Care Provider; Children's Home; Church; Church agency; Church Worker; City Mission; Community Service Organisation; Consumer Support Organisation; Convalescent Home; Cottage Homes

D: Diocese; Disability Institution; Doctor

F: Family Group Home; Farm School; Female rescue home; Foster Care

G: Government Department

H: Holiday Home; Hostel; Hostels generally catered for 'older' children and young people, from around the age of 15. They assisted former residents of orphanages and children's homes with the transition to paid employment and independent living. From the 1940s, the Victorian government encouraged 'care' providers to establish hostels, offering a subsidy.

I: Industrial School; Intellectual disability institution

J: Juvenile justice centre

M: Maternity Home; Matron

N: Nurse

O: Orphanage

P: Peak body; Philanthropist; Policy; Politician; Public Servant

R: Receiving Home; Reception Centre; Records Service; Reformatory; Reformer; Religious Minister; Religious Order

S: School; Social movement; Staff member; Superintendent

T: Type of 'care'

W: Writer

Y: Youth Training Centre; Youth Welfare Service