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All foster and kinship carers need to remain approved to provide care to children. You will initially be approved as a carer for 12 months (or up to 12 months for a kinship carer). If your approval is ...

If you have doubts about how to respond, you should contact your foster and kinship care service or the child safety service centre for advice. An absence may be an early indicator that a child is ...

Do Foster Parents Get Paid? If you're thinking about fostering children for extra money, you're in it for the wrong reason. Fosters get a non-taxable subsidy from the government to help care for any ...

The initiative, put together by the Animal Foundation, offers a chance for a rescue pet to get a well-earned break from the shelter over the holidays.

These private nonprofits have incurred insurance and legal costs that now threaten to destabilize Philadelphia’s foster care system. DHS’s largest CUA (pronounced COO-uh), Turning Points for Children, ...

CASA of northeast Oklahoma is working with community members to raise awareness for kids in the foster care system. Throughout the month of April, you will find paper dolls dressed in kids ...

Whanganui caregiver and lead facilitator of Woven Whānau Rachel Puru has received an Excellence in Foster Care Award for going “above and beyond”. Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro presented ...

The legislation also would allow people to sue DCF for damages and attorney fees if barriers to foster care or adoption were enforced after July 1, when the bill was set to go into effect. The ...