Abstract
The aim of this module from the book Rights-based Integrated Child Protection Service Delivery Systems is to learn to place children in specific alternative childcare services. It first examines the concepts, theories and method of child placement in foster care which is a temporary placement with an extended or unrelated family member with the aim to eventually reunite the child with his/her own family when the family circumstances improve. It then examines the concepts, theories and method of child placement in adoption which permanently separates the child from his/her biological parents and makes him/her the lawful child of his/her adoptive parents with all the rights, privileges and responsibilities that are attached to a biological child. It finally examines the concepts, theories and method of child placement in institutional care as a last resort due to its disadvantages to the child, and the need for deinstitutionalisation and aftercare services for these children.