Glossary

Glossary terms starting with the letter C:

  • Child Endowment – Child Endowment was a non-means tested, universal allowance introduced by the Commonwealth government in 1941.
  • Child Evacuee – Child evacuees were removed from their homes in Britain during World War Two in order to escape the air raids.
  • Child Guidance Clinic – Child guidance clinics diagnosed and treated behavioural and emotional problems in children.
  • Child in need of care and protection – Child “in need of care and protection” was the language used in child welfare legislation from around the 1950s.
  • Child Labour – Child labour is the employment of children in work that is harmful and/or interferes with their schooling.
  • Child Rescue – The child rescue movement sought to remove children from their surroundings, for their moral and physical benefit.
  • Children's Home – Children’s Home was a common term from the 1920s to the 1970s to describe children’s institutions.
  • Children's Village – A Children's Village was an alternative to dormitory-style accommodation, and usually comprised several cottage Homes,
  • City Mission – City Mission refers to the missions run by various Christian denominations in urban and suburban settings.
  • Clean Break Theory – Clean break theory held that it was best for the mother and adopted child to be separated as early and completely as possible.
  • Closed Adoption – Closed adoption, where an adopted child’s original identity was hidden, was common until the 1970s.
  • Commissioner for Native Affairs (WA) – The Commissioner for Native Affairs was an official role created by the Native Administration Act 1936, replacing the Chief Protector of Aborigines.
  • Commissioner of Native Welfare (WA) – The Commissioner of Native Welfare was an official role created by the Native Welfare Act 1954 (WA).
  • Community Support Hostel – Community Support Hostels in Western Australia from 1984 were for children with complex needs who couldn’t be placed in foster care.
  • Community Unit – Community Units, in South Australia from the 1970s, provided longer term small group care for children and young people.
  • Compound – Compounds were areas in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were confined within a town district.
  • Congregate Care – Congregate Care describes the accommodation of children in dormitories within large institutions like orphanages.
  • Convalescent Home – Convalescent Homes were institutions for children to rest and recover from illnesses, or after a stay in hospital.
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child – The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) is an international convention, setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children.
  • Cottage Home – Cottage Homes were an alternative to large, dormitory-style institutions.
  • Custodial Care – Custodial Care was a model historically used on many people with intellectual disabilities or mental illness.