The foster home’s main objective is to ensure that children recover their family environment or find a suitable family environment, as stated in some countries law, modifying the protection system for children and adolescents.
Foster homes are part of a network of centers planned, supervised, and coordinated by the General Directorate for Children, Families, and Births.
Types Of Foster Homes
Child Fostering: What to Know About the First Reception
Fostering agency London welcomes children or adolescents admitted by emergency procedure, carry out an evaluative study of the situation and propose the most appropriate measure to the Guardianship Commission.
In addition to the educational and residential care they provide, to carry out all the study work and processing of the cases attended, they have a team from the minor protection area based in the same reception center.
The program responds to the need to have a residential resource for continuous and uninterrupted care of emergencies related to child abuse or lack of protection.
Early Childhood
They take in boys and girls between the ages of 0 and 6 temporarily, as they are provided with an alternative to residential institutionalization.
The minors remain in the residences while the family difficulties that gave rise to the protection measure are solved, returning with their families when this is possible. In this age range, it is intended that those minors who cannot return with their families grow up with other families through the figure of foster care, taking into account that laws of modification, always applies. Of the system for protecting children and adolescents, where the obligation to always look for the family alternative is always sought, either in an extended family or in an alien family before the minor is admitted to a juvenile center.
In any case, residential resources for children between 0 and 6 years of age are specialized in meeting the care needs at these ages, which entails particularities in the distribution of spaces, in the educator-child ratio, in the preparation of staff in the organization of daily life.
