child welfare service

1. 1.

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

   Synonymschild welfare agency

   Broaderadministrative unit

Questions about child welfare service

What does child welfare service mean?

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

What is another word for child welfare service?

Close synonyms include child welfare agency. 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 service a common word?

child welfare service 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.