boarding out

noun

1. social welfare
   1. the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it
   2. ( as modifier )

      boarding-out allowances

Example Sentences

Again, in 1905, the Order for boarding-out beyond the union was slightly altered and re-issued.

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The “boarding-out” of lunatics is, in Scotland, a regular part of the lunacy administration.

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The second governs the boarding-out of children in localities outside the union.

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Boarding-out is governed by two orders of the Local Government Board, issued in 1889.

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What is called the boarding-out system is an effort in a similar direction.

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