child welfare agency

1. 1.

   an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children

   Synonymschild welfare service

   Broaderadministrative unit

Questions about child welfare agency

What does child welfare agency mean?

child welfare agency means "an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children".

What is another word for child welfare agency?

Close synonyms include child welfare service. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is child welfare agency a common word?

child welfare agency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.