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• 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

Frequently asked questions

• Who is eligible for a Foster and Kinship Carer Card?
• Who can use the Foster and Kinship Carer Card?
• What happens when I’m no longer a carer?
• Where can I use the Foster and Kinship Carer Card?
• What happens if my card is lost, stolen or damaged?
• What happens if I change my name?
• Does the directory list all the businesses that give cardholders discounts?
• How can I get my favourite business to provide a discount to foster and kinship carers?
• How do I use the Foster and Kinship Carer Card?
• Will the participating shops have stickers in their window?

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Who is eligible for a Foster and Kinship Carer Card?

All Approved foster and kinship carers throughout Queensland are eligible for the Foster and Kinship Carer Card.

Who can use the Foster and Kinship Carer Card?

The Foster and Kinship Carer Card must be used only by the approved carer listed on the card.

What happens when I’m no longer a carer?

The Foster and Kinship Carer Card remains the property of the Department of Child Safety and must be returned to Foster and Kinship Carer Card if approval is no longer valid.

Where can I use the Foster and Kinship Carer Card?

The card is valid only in Queensland. A full up-to-date list of participating businesses is available in the online Business Discount Directory.

What happens if my card is lost, stolen or damaged?

Simply contact your Child Safety Officer and ask them to order another Foster and Kinship Carer Card on your behalf.

What happens if I change my name?

All changes of name must be supported by documentation, either marriage certificate, driver's licence or divorce decree.

Simply contact your Child Safety Officer and request for another Foster and Kinship Carer Card with the appropriate changes on your behalf.

Does the directory list all the businesses that give cardholders discounts?

Yes. Whilst enlisting businesses is an ongoing venture, new data is added to the Online Business Discount Directory regularly.

Please check back frequently to view the full up-to-date business listings in your area.

How can I get my favourite business to provide a discount to foster and kinship carers?

Nominate your favourite business!

A Foster and Kinship Carer Card Officer will approach the business to encourage them to participate in the Foster and Kinship Carer Card business discount scheme.

How do I use the Foster and Kinship Carer Card?

To ensure that you receive your discount, make the vendor aware that you hold a Foster and Kinship Carer Card during the price negotiation.

Read the tips provided on how to use your Foster and Kinship Carer Card.

Will the participating shops have stickers in their window?

Participating businesses are encouraged to display 'Foster and Kinship Carer Card Welcome Here' stickers inside their front shop windows and on cash registers.

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Last updated

4 August 2008