Apply for help with upbringing in full-time care
Service description
Full-time foster care means that your child lives with another family and is looked after there. Which foster family your child lives with and for how long, for example, depends on this:
- Age of the child
- Your child's stage of development
- Bonding with your child
- Possibilities for improving the educational conditions in your organisation
The foster parents are selected by the youth welfare office together with you.
Only suitable persons can become foster parents and take your child into their care. Relatives (e.g. grandparents
) can also be foster parents.
Full-time foster care can be temporary or permanent. It is a type of educational assistance. It can also apply to young adults.Procedure
- Contact the responsible youth welfare office.
- The youth welfare office will explain to you in a personal meeting what help is available.
- The Youth Welfare Office will try to support you so that your child can continue to stay with you.
- If the youth welfare office and you come to the conclusion that it makes sense to place your child in a foster family, you can submit an application for "educational assistance".
- All parties involved (you, your child, the carers from the care facility and the youth welfare office) meet for a help plan discussion. The help plan sets out how the help is to be organised and which goals are to be achieved.
- The youth welfare office will look for a suitable foster family. You can express your wishes. If there are several possible foster parents, you can help choose.
- The youth welfare office regularly checks whether the help is still appropriate.
Who should I contact?
Youth welfare office
Prerequisites
- You are the parent or guardian of a child (the person with parental authority).
- They do not manage to care for and educate the child in a way that is good for the child.
- Full-time foster care is suitable and necessary.
Which documents are required?
- Identity card
- If applicable, proof of custody, for example: birth certificate, information from the custody register or a family court decision on custody.
What fees are incurred?
The costs of full-time foster care are largely borne by the youth welfare office. However, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office about this.
Legal basis
Short text
- Apply for help with upbringing in full-time care
- After consultation on request
- Parents are involved in the choice of foster family
- Help plan discussion necessary
- Responsible body: Youth Welfare Office
Typing
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