Hilfen zur Erziehung in Vollzeitpflege beantragen

If you cannot ensure that your child is well at home with you, then your child can live with a foster family temporarily or for a longer period of time.

Full-time foster care means that your child lives with and is cared for by another family. Which foster family your child lives with and for how long, for example, depends on this:

• Age of the child
• Your child's stage of development
• Your child's attachments
• Possibilities for improving the upbringing conditions in your home

The foster parents are selected by the Youth Welfare Office together with you.
Only suitable people can become foster parents and take your child into their care.
Relatives (e.g. grandparents) can also be foster parents.
Full-time foster care can be temporary or permanent. It is a type of educational assistance. It can also apply to young adults.

• Identity card
• If applicable, proof of custody, for example: birth certificate, information from the custody register or a family court decision on custody.

• You are the parent or guardian of a child (the person with custody of the child).
• You are unable to care for and raise the child in a way that is good for the child.
• Full-time foster care is suitable and necessary.
  

The costs of full-time foster care are largely borne by the youth welfare office. However, you must contribute to the costs to a reasonable extent. Please ask the responsible youth welfare office about this.

• Contact the responsible youth welfare office.
• The youth welfare office will explain to you in a personal meeting what help is available.
• The youth welfare office will try to support you so that your child can continue to stay with you.
• If the youth welfare office and you come to the conclusion that it makes sense to place your child in a foster family, you can apply for "educational support".
• All parties involved (you, your child, the caregivers from the care facility and the youth welfare office) will meet for a help plan discussion. The help plan sets out how the help is to be organized and which goals are to be achieved.
• The youth welfare office looks for a suitable foster family. You can express your wishes. If there are several possible foster parents, you can help choose one.
• The youth welfare office regularly checks whether the help is still suitable.
  

• Apply for help with upbringing in full-time care
• After consultation upon application
• Parents are involved in the choice of foster family
• Help plan discussion necessary
• Responsible body: Youth welfare office