child welfare service
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- noun
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servicio de bienestar infantil
- John contacted the child welfare service to report his concerns about the living conditions of his neighbor's children.
- child welfare service enforcement
- child welfare service law
Examples
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From interviews about their community violence experiences (Guterman & Cameron, 1996), children in child welfare services settings often depict a banal sense of danger and lonely struggles to survive.
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These reforms provide opportunities to reinvigorate juvenile justice systems with social work principles in a shared agency auspice with child welfare services.
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Delivering child welfare services through the community coalition may work well in Sarasota, a wealthy county of 300,000 with a little more than 400 kids in the system.
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Since the 1950s, provincial child welfare services had apprehended one hundred children from the community of approximately eight hundred. And Splatsin was not alone: in March 1980, there were twenty-eight hundred Indigenous children across the province in care, representing 40 percent of the total population of provincial children in care.
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Florida privatized its foster-care system over a decade ago, while Kansas transferred the majority of its child-welfare services (including foster care, adoption, and family preservation) to private actors starting in the mid-1990s.
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Chenot, D., Benton, A. D., & Kim, H. (2009). The influence of supervisor support, peer support, and organizational culture among early career social workers in child welfare services. Child Welfare, 88, 129-147.
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The local child welfare service helps families in crisis by providing counseling and support for at-risk youth.
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Many community organizations collaborate with the child welfare service to ensure every child has access to essential resources.
Synonyms
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Programs that help people who need support
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An organization that protects children and gives help for their safety and development
A government agency that protects and supports children and families
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an organization providing welfare for children' is directly and transparently derivable from the constituents: 'child' (the recipients) + 'welfare' (well-being/support) + 'service' (an organization providing support). This straightforward noun-noun composition is a common compositional pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Child welfare service comes from three simple words: child, meaning a young person, welfare, meaning 'well-being', and service, meaning 'help'. So it literally means a service that looks after children's health and safety, and that's why today it refers to organizations that protect and support children.