Foster care

• About foster and kinship care
  • What is foster care?
  • What is kinship care?
  • Who needs care?
  • Provisionally approved carers
  • Specialist foster care
  • Non family-based care
• Becoming a carer
  • Expression of interest
    • Register your interest
  • Questions to consider
  • Rewards and challenges
  • Steps to becoming a carer
  • Blue card for carers
• Carer training
  • Foster carer training
    • Foreword
    • Procedures and guidelines
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Orientation
    • Learning outcomes
    • Pre-service training
    • Learning journal
    • Standard training
    • Advanced training
    • Recognition of prior learning
    • Acknowledgments
    • Forms and templates
  • Kinship carer training
• Support for carers
  • Carer handbook
  • Federal Government allowances and benefits
  • Foster and kinship care support line
  • Foster and Kinship Carer Card
    • Business Discount Directory
      • Tips on using the card
      • Nominate a business
    • ADSS Shopper
    • Information for businesses
      • Business proposal application form
      • Terms and conditions
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Financial support
  • Support care
  • Support groups
• Rights and responsibilities
  • Standards of care
  • Statement of commitment
  • Charter of rights of a child in care
  • United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Case planning for a child in care
  • Child Health Passport
  • Children and young people with disabilities
  • Education Support Plans
  • Family contact and reunification
  • Long-term guardianship
  • Placement Agreements
  • Transition from care
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
  • Child placement principle
  • Recognised Entities
• Regulation of care
  • Screening and assessment
  • Matters of concern
  • Community Visitors
• Contacts
  • Community foster care agencies
  • Indigenous foster care agencies
  • Peak bodies and advocacy groups
  • Foster and Kinship Carer Card contacts
• Library

Information for businesses

How to participate

If you are interested in this worthwhile initiative, you are invited to consider how your business can contribute.

1. Decide on a discount or value-added offer exclusive to Queensland foster and kinship carers (e.g. 10 per cent discount on total purchases).
2. Complete and submit the Business Application Form.
3. Or print and return the completed form to Foster and Kinship Carer Card.

What do you receive in return?

Your business could benefit from the qualities and strengths that foster and kinship families are renowned for their commitment and loyalty.

In return for your support of this scheme you will receive:

• a Free business listing in the online Business Discount Directory.
• Free advertising in the hard copy Business Discount Directory mailed every six months directly to foster and kinship carers.
• Free point-of-sale material to be displayed in your business such as Foster and Kinship Carer Card window and cash register stickers.
• An opportunity to be profiled in Department of Child Safety monthly magazine Brighter Futures distributed to over 7,500 people across the state.

You can also contact the Foster and Kinship Carer Card Program Support Officer for more information on (07) 3224 7565 or free call 1800 811 732.

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Last updated

4 August 2008