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Almost 200 children placed in foster care in 2017

Dec 31, 2017 News

Nearly 200 children have been placed in foster care for the year 2017. This is according to information compiled and released from the Ministry of Social Protection’s Child Protection Agency, (CPA).
The information outlined through the foster care programme reveals that 95 girls and 96 boys were placed with 123 foster parents.
Prior to the children being placed into the foster care system, prospective parents underwent a screening and training period in which the children were attached to the homes based on their specific needs.
Subsequent to the placement, officials of the CPA engaged in continuous monitoring of the children through home and school visits
According to the CPA, providing psychosocial support and counselling services to biological families as well as conducting case reviews to determine permanency plans for children in foster care is essential to the success of the programme.
Foster care is an alternative to the institutionalisation of children. Foster care sets out to offer family-based care rather than the general care offered by children in homes. Foster parents offer individualised attention to their foster children. Institutions are usually the last resort.
For foster care, a child’s extended family is the first resort before CPA seeks out a foster parent. Foster parents are paid a monthly stipend per child as long as the child remains under their care.
Last year, there were in excess of 700 children in both the CPA’s and residential care. Generally, the number of children in state care is much higher when one takes into account the holding or juvenile centres, which do not fall under CPA.
Head of the CPA, Ann Greene, had noted that the state’s foster care programme is going well. However, she admitted that there is always a need for more foster parents.

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