Applicant (adoption)
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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| METEOR identifier: | 749052 |
| Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 |
| Definition: | A married couple, a de facto couple or a single person. The method by which the applicant becomes an official client will vary for each jurisdiction, and might be when the department first opens a file, when the applicant registers, or when the applicant is invited to attend an information session. For the purpose of this report, applicants who are already a client of the department, but are applying to adopt a subsequent child, or reapplying to adopt, are counted as applicants applying for the first time. |
| Context: | Adoptions |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Applicant Children and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021 |
| Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Ad-hoc adoption Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Adoption type code N Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Adoptions DSS 2020-21 Children and Families, Superseded 05/06/2023 Adoptions DSS 2021-22 Children and Families, Standard 05/06/2023 Adoptions DSS 2022-23 Children and Families, Qualified 22/11/2023 Bilateral adoption Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Hague adoption Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Known child intercountry adoption Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Non-Hague adoption Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 |