Foster Care

The term “foster care” is used in a variety of ways, and, consequently, it often causes confusion and miscommunication. In the industrialized world it is generally used to refer to formal, temporary placements made by the State with families that are trained, monitored and compensated at some level. In many developing countries, however, fostering is kinship care or other placement with a family, the objective(s) of which may include the care of the child, the child’s access to education, and/or the child’s doing some type of work for the foster family.

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Vathsalya Charitable Trust,

Explores temporary foster care as an alternative to institutionalization in India. Emphasis on analyzing and reforming guidelines for foster care.

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Country report of Russia on the situation of children in residential care in anticipation of the Second International Conference on Children and Residential Care: New Strategies for a New Millennium, to be held in Stockholm 12 – 15 May 2003.

Marc Pilon,

Explores the relationship between fostering and education in West Africa. Identifies special need to focus on protecting and educating young girls.

Corinne Siaens, K. Subbarao, and Quentin Wodon,

This research paper explores the condition of orphaned children in Rwanda. The paper urges the design of appropriate social protection mechanisms, including differentiated policy responses, conditional cash transfers and increased access to education.

David Tolfree,

A paper discussing the shortcomings of systems in which separated children are placed into residential/ institutional forms of care. It also considers community-based and some other forms of care as alternative approaches to preventing unnecessary separation of children from their families.

Charles H. Zeanah, Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox,

An overview of the largest longitudinal investigation of institutionalized children less than 2 years old ever conducted.

Richard P. Barth ,

A review of institutional care and family-centered care with a discussion of both positive and negative aspects of group care. This review paper is primarily focused on showing the inefficacy of group care and recommending other forms of care such as kinship care and even foster care as options that are more cost effective and better for children’s development.

International Rescue Committee, Save the Children UK, UNICEF, and UNHCR,

Guidelines and criteria for establishing and monitoring alternative care arrangements including emergency transit booth care (ETBC), foster care, and independent living for separated Liberian refugee children in Sierra Leone.

Department of Health, UK ,

A set of standards for the delivery of a national fostering service. It includes standards for the management of the service, the delivery of care, reunification with birth families, and working with caregivers.

Miatta Abdullai, Edwin Dorbor, and David Tolfree,

This paper outlines the response of Save the Children to the civil war outbreak in Liberia. Using the concept of child participation, the organization was able to address the needs of the children, which included family tracing and reunification, child protection and education.