List of Categories

A: Advocacy Body; An Advocacy Body is a group formed by people who share concerns around a particular issue, in this case child welfare, and who seek to raise the priority of their concerns on the public and/or government agendas.

C: Care Provider; Care provider is an umbrella term that refers to the group or organisation responsible for providing and administering out-of-home 'care' for children. Although this term was not in common usage before the late twentieth century, this website applies it to describe all organisations which operated 'care' services, no matter when they were active.

G: Government Department; A Government Department is a group of public servants organised to administer a particular area of government activity, under the control of a minister.

P: Peak Body; Peak Bodies are organisations, often formed out of grass roots activism or interest in a particular issue, which act as a representative voice for the people and or groups who are their members.; Policy; The term Policy refers to a guiding principle adopted by a group, sector or government with respect to a particular issue.; Principal Act; A Principal Act is the original piece of legislation enacted to introduce a particular policy. A Principal Act can be amended (changed) by Amending Acts.

R: Receiving Agency; Receiving Agency was the name given to the organisation named as the ‘custodian’ of children who were sent to Australia as migrants from the United Kingdom or Malta. The term is used mostly for post-World War Two migration, but includes some organisations that were responsible for children who came earlier in the century.

S: Sending Agency; Sending Agency was the name given to the organisation responsible for arranging the migration of children to Australia from the United Kingdom or Malta.; Support Service; Support Services are groups who provide services to assist people who were in 'care' as children. Some of these organisations also provide support services to other family members (like the care leaver's children or grandchildren) who have also been affected.

T: Term commonly found on child welfare records; A phrase, word or abbreviation commonly used as a shorthand notation within child welfare records.; Type of 'care'; A method of providing for children who are not living with their families.