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List of Categories
- 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.
- Alliance for Forgotten Australians (2006 - )
- Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare (2003 - )
- Charity Organisation Society of Melbourne (1887 - 1947)
- Child Saving Council (1910 - 1912)
- Children's Welfare Association of Victoria (1912 - 2003)
- Families Australia (2001 - )
- National Children's Bureau of Australia (1971 - 1993)
- Victorian Family Council (1958 - )
- Policy
- The term Policy refers to a guiding principle adopted by a group, sector or government with respect to a particular issue.
- The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (c. 1983 - )
- Life Story Work
- Presbyterian
- The term Presbyterian describes a person or organisation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.
- Craig Memorial Hostel (c. 1926 - c. 1929)
- Dhurringile Rural Training Farm (1951 - 1964)
- Harrison House (1960 - 1985)
- Kangerong Hostel (1975 - )
- Kildonan Admission Centre (c. 1960 - 1982)
- Kildonan Homes for Children (c. 1960 - c. 1993)
- Kildonan Residential Units (c. 1958 - 2003?)
- Kildonan, Burwood (1937 - c. 1961)
- Kildonan, North Melbourne (1890 - c. 1937)
- Kilmany Park Farm Home for Boys (1923 - 1978)
- McOwan Boys' Training Farm (c. 1953 - 1957?)
- Presbyterian and Methodist Child Care Service (1971 - 1977?)
- The Presbyterian and Scots' Church Children's Aid Society (1895 - 1950?)
- Presbyterian Babies' Home (1928 - 1977)
- Presbyterian Girls' Home (1906? - c. 1966)
- Presbyterian Sisterhood (c. 1900 - 1978?)
- Presbyterian Sisterhood Home (1909 - c. 1978)
- The Presbyterian Society for Neglected and Destitute Children (1893 - 1895)
- Regent House Hostel for Girls (1966? - 1977)
- Scots' Church Neglected Children's Aid Society (1881 - 1895)
- 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.
- Aborigines Act 1890 (1890 - 1915)
- Aborigines Act 1915 (1915 - 1929)
- Aborigines Act 1928 (1929 - 1957)
- Aborigines Act 1957 (1957 - 1959)
- Aborigines Act 1958 (1959 - 1968)
- An Act for Hospitals and Charitable Institutions 1864 (1864 - 1890)
- An Act to Provide for the Protection and Management of the Aboriginal Natives of Victoria (1870 - 1890)
- Adoption Act 1984 (1985 - )
- Adoption of Children (Information) Act 1980 (1981 - 1987)
- Adoption of Children Act 1928 (1929 - 1959)
- Adoption of Children Act 1958 (1959 - 1966)
- Adoption of Children Act 1964 (1966 - 1987)
- British Migrants (Agreement) Act 1933 (1933 - 1982)
- Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 (2005 - )
- Children (Guardianship and Custody) Act 1984 (1985 - 1991)
- Children and Young Persons Act 1989 (1991 - 2007)
- Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (2007 - )
- Children's Court Act 1906 (1906 - 1915)
- Children's Court Act 1915 (1915 - 1928)
- Children's Court Act 1928 (1929 - 1957)
- Children's Court Act 1956 (1957 - 1959)
- Children's Court Act 1958 (1959 - 1974)
- Children's Court Act 1973 (1974 - 1992)
- Children's Maintenance Act 1919 (1919 - 1929)
- Children's Welfare Act 1928 (1929 - 1955)
- Children's Welfare Act 1954 (1955 - 1959)
- Children's Welfare Act 1958 (1959 - 1971)
- Community Services Act 1987 (1987 - )
- Community Welfare Services Act 1978 (1979 - 1983)
- Crimes Act 1890 (1890 - 1915)
- Crimes Act 1915 (1915 - 1958)
- Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (2007 - )
- Family Law Act 1975 (1976 - )
- Freedom of Information Act 1982 (1983 - )
- Health Act 1890 (1890 - 1915)
- Hospitals and Charities Act 1890 (1890 - 1915)
- Hospitals and Charities Act 1915 (1915 - 1923)
- Hospitals and Charities Act 1922 (1923 - 1928)
- Hospitals and Charities Act 1928 (1929 - 1948)
- Hospitals and Charities Act 1948 (1948 - 1958)
- Hospitals and Charities Act 1958 (1958 - 1987)
- Infant Life Protection Act 1890 (1891 - 1915)
- Infant Life Protection Act 1915 (1915 - 1929)
- Information Privacy Act 2000 (2001 - 2014)
- The Juvenile Offenders' Act 1887 (1888 - 1890)
- Lunacy Act 1928 (1929 - 1959)
- Lunacy Statute 1867 (1867 - 1890)
- Maintenance Act 1928 (1929 - 1958)
- Mental Deficiency Act 1939 (1939 - 1959)
- Mental Deficiency Act 1958 (1959 - 1962)
- Mental Health Act 1959 (1962 - 1987)
- Mental Health Act 1986 (1987 - )
- Mental Hygiene Act 1958 (1959 - 1962)
- The Neglected and Criminal Children's Act 1864 (1864 - 1888)
- The Neglected Children's Act 1887 (1888 - 1890)
- The Neglected Children's Act 1890 (1890 - 1915)
- Neglected Children's Act 1915 (1915 - 1929)
- Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (2014 - )
- Public Records Act 1973 (1973 - )
- Social Welfare Act 1960 (1960 - 1971)
- Social Welfare Act 1970 (1971 - 1978)
- Status of Children Act 1974 (1975 - )
- Venereal Diseases Act 1928 (1929 - 1958)
- Project
- The term Project refers to a program established to investigate or redevelop policies, practices or services.
- The Who Am I? Project (2008 - 2012)
- Protestant
- The term Protestant describes a person or organisation affiliated with any one of the Protestant Churches. With child welfare, services were often clustered under the umbrella terms of Protestant and Catholic.
- Abercare Family Services (1981 - 2009?)
- Allenby Lodge Young Women's Hostel (1919 - 1984)
- Andrew Kerr Memorial Home (c. 1921 - c. 1980)
- Anglicare Victoria (1997 - )
- Arms of Jesus Babies' Home (1925 - 1935)
- Baptcare (1945 - )
- Baptist Social Service Homes for Children (c. 1970 - c. 1985)
- Bayside Community Youth Hostel (c. 1977 - 1994?)
- Bayswater Boys' Homes (1897 - 1987)
- Beryl Booth Court (1978 - 1991)
- Blackburn South Cottages (1963 - 1988)
- Box Hill Boys' Home (1913 - 1984)
- Brady House (1964 - 1978)
- Brunswick Girls' Home (1892 - 1902)
- Buckland House (c. 1980 - 1994)
- Burton Hall Training Farm (1950? - 1967?)
- Butler House for Homeless Girls (1934 - 1940s)
- Catherine Booth Girls' Home (1915 - 1976)
- Central Dorcas Society (1888 - 1891)
- Church of England Boys' Society Training Farm (1937 - 1950)
- Church of England Homes for Children (1894 - c. 1968)
- Connections UnitingCare (2000 - 2017)
- Copelen Street Family Centre (1974 - 1991)
- Craig Memorial Hostel (c. 1926 - c. 1929)
- Darling Babies' Home (1927 - 1967)
- Dhurringile Rural Training Farm (1951 - 1964)
- Ellen Connell Holiday Home (1955 - 1973)
- Fairhaven (1927 - 1953)
- Fernhurst (1968 - 1978?)
- George Hall Hostel for School Leavers (1973? - 1976?)
- Gippsland Family Services (1979 - )
- Girls' Memorial Home (1922 - 1973)
- Glenroy Girls' Home (1902 - 1915)
- The Harbour (1898 - 1994)
- Harrison House (1960 - 1985)
- The Haven (1897 - 1988)
- The Haven Day Care Centre (1985 - 1990)
- Heathfield Homes Reformatory School for Protestant Boys (1905 - 1915)
- Heidelberg Boys' Home (1893 - 1895)
- The Homes for Children and Family Counselling Service (1968 - c. 1975)
- The Horseshoe (1926 - 1927)
- House of Mercy (c. 1892 - 1946)
- Jacana Children's Home (1976 - 1995)
- Kardinia Children's Home (1947 - 1986)
- Kedesh Maternity Home (1926 - 1986)
- Kildonan Admission Centre (c. 1960 - 1982)
- Kildonan Homes for Children (c. 1960 - c. 1993)
- Kildonan Residential Units (c. 1958 - 2003?)
- Kildonan UnitingCare (2007 - 2017)
- Kildonan, Burwood (1937 - c. 1961)
- Kildonan, North Melbourne (1890 - c. 1937)
- Kilmany Park Farm Home for Boys (1923 - 1978)
- Lincoln House (c. 1939 - 1950)
- Livingstone House (1888 - 1891)
- Lutheran Children's Home (1950 - 1973)
- Lyndon Lodge (1946 - c. 2004)
- McOwan Boys' Training Farm (c. 1953 - 1957?)
- Methodist Babies' Home (1929 - c. 1974)
- Methodist Homes for Children (1891 - c. 1953)
- Mission House (1886 - c. 1997)
- Mission of St James and St John (1919 - 1997)
- Mission to the Streets and Lanes (1886 - 1997)
- Moira Private Hospital (1924? - 1950?)
- Molloy House (1968 - c. 1983)
- Murrumbeena Girls' Home (1897 - 1912)
- Napier House (1990? - 1997?)
- Orana Family Services (1988 - 2011)
- Orana, the Peace Memorial Homes for Children (1953 - 1988)
- Pakenham Boys' Home (1895 - 1897)
- Peninsula Family Services (1980 - )
- The Presbyterian and Scots' Church Children's Aid Society (1895 - 1950?)
- Presbyterian Babies' Home (1928 - 1977)
- Presbyterian Girls' Home (1906? - c. 1966)
- Presbyterian Sisterhood (c. 1900 - 1978?)
- Presbyterian Sisterhood Home (1909 - c. 1978)
- The Presbyterian Society for Neglected and Destitute Children (1893 - 1895)
- Ramoth (1926 - 1927)
- Ramoth Toddlers' Home (1927 - c. 1932)
- Ramsay Mailer Hostel (1983 - 1990?)
- Regent House Hostel for Girls (1966? - 1977)
- Riddells Creek Girls' Home (1900 - 1940)
- The Salvation Army (Southern Territory) (1882 - )
- The Salvation Army EastCare Network (1995 - )
- The Salvation Army Peninsula Youth & Family Services
- The Salvation Army Westcare (c. 1980 - 2018)
- School of Homecrafts Hostel (c. 1925 - 1976)
- Scots' Church Neglected Children's Aid Society (1881 - 1895)
- South Yarra Hostel (c. 1974 - c. 1982)
- Southbridge Adolescent Services
- Spring House - Young Women's Hostel (1921 - 1984)
- St Agnes' Girls' Home (1926 - 1963)
- St Barnabas' Boys' Home (1934 - 1939)
- St Cuthbert's Home for Boys (1948 - 1977)
- St David's Hostel (c. 1973 - 1997?)
- St Faith's (1975 - c. 1984)
- St Gabriel's Babies' Home (1935 - 1975)
- St John's by the Sea (1951 - 1958?)
- St John's Homes for Boys (c. 1924 - 1958)
- St John's Homes for Boys and Girls (1958 - 1997)
- St Luke's Anglicare (1979 - 2014)
- St Luke's Toddlers' Home (1932 - 1979)
- St Martin's Home for Boys (1921 - c. 1926)
- St Martin's House (1944 - 2000?)
- St Nicholas' Boys' Home (1926 - c. 1955)
- St Paul's Discovery Centre (1979 - 2004?)
- St Paul's Home For Boys (1955 - 1979)
- St Paul's Training School (1928 - 1955)
- Strathmore Lodge (1953 - 1955)
- Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm (1903 - 1986)
- Tally Ho Youth Services (1986 - 1989)
- Unit 64 (1975 - c. 1984)
- Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited (2017 - )
- Wesley Central Mission (1893 - 1977)
- Wesley Central Parish Mission (1977 - 2001)
- William Booth Girls' Home (1912 - 1972)