Placement (adoption)

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	Adoption placement
METEOR identifier:	749066
Registration status:	Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021
Definition:	The act of placing a child or children with their adoptive family (that is, for intercountry adoption, the child enters Australia; for local adoption, the child is taken into the care of the prospective adoptive parent(s)) during the reporting period, regardless of the status of their adoption order.
Context:	Adoptions

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Placement Children and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Adoption—adoption placement, total N[NN] Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Adoptions DSS 2020-21 Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Adoptive family—adoptive parent marital status, code N Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Adoptive family—sibling composition, type code N[N] Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Adoptive parent Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Intercountry adoption Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Local adoption Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021 Type of intercountry adoption program code N Children and Families, Standard 03/11/2021