| Autor: |
Vedder, P., Veenstra, M., Goemans, A., Geel, M. van |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2015 |
| Popis: |
Permanency Planning in Foster Care Permanency planning in foster care in the Netherlands is meant to aim for the best possible and stable care situation for a child that is conducive to the child’s positive development. Participants in this planning are the child, the parents and foster parents. Necessary information gathering is structured by foster care workers / professionals and the formal placement authority. The latter prepares a placement advice for the juvenile court. Interviews with all 28 providers of foster care in the Netherlands were conducted to answer the question what methods these organizations use for providing information that is input to permanency planning. Only one organization used a method specifically meant to facilitate permanency planning. Other organizations used methods for describing and analyzing the need for help and deciding on the type of help provided, or methods seeking to improve collaboration and communication between organizations and staff engaged with a family and a child for which a placement decision has to be taken. After serving these first aims the information was used also as input for arguing placement options. Providers voiced a strong wish to strengthen their role in permanency planning. Whether they succeed or not strongly depends on the formal placement authority. Half of the organizations indicated that their relationship with the placement authority is suboptimal. How this relationship can be improved is unclear. A proposal to use a more standardized procedure for collecting and reporting information required for permanency planning decisions was met with skepticism. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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