Foster parent's rights and obligations
Before making the decision to become a foster parent, it is worth knowing your rights and obligations in full.
What are the duties of a foster parent?
The main purpose of placing a child in foster care - ensuring that his or her welfare is secured - is also reflected in the basic duties of foster families and family orphanages. It is the duty to provide the child with round-the-clock care and upbringing, in accordance with the following rules:
• treating a child in a way that fosters a sense of dignity
and personal value
• ensuring access to due health services
• providing education, leveling development gaps
• ensuring the development of talents and interests
• meeting emotional, living and developmental needs,
social and religious;
• provide protection against arbitrary or unlawful interference
in the private life of the child.
• enabling contact with parents and other relatives,
unless the court decides otherwise
It is worth adding that people who foster care are also obliged to cooperate with the coordinator of family foster care, the organizer of family foster care and the adoption center.
Professional foster families and owners of family orphanages also have an additional obligation - systematic improvement of qualifications, in particular participation in training. This obligation is obviously related to the professional nature of the activities of these people.
What are the rights of a foster parent?
The right to everyday support
The right to receive assistance in carrying out daily duties. The development of the topic of support for foster families can be found here: Support for foster families
The right to be informed about the child
Persons exercising foster care are provided with the provision of information about the newly adopted child. As part of this right, the family should receive from the organizer of family foster care detailed information about the child and his family situation (including information about siblings). Those in charge should also receive documentation regarding the child (birth certificate, medical records, school records, psychophysical diagnosis of the child, work plan with the family).
Earlier contact with the child
The organizer of foster care should, if possible, ensure contact with the newly admitted child to the family / home no later than 7 days before placing the child in this family / family home.