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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 cards for carers
  • Blue cards for existing carers and their adult household members
• 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
• Children and young people
  • Transitioning from care
  • Info kit for children and young people in care
    • Family group meeting (FGM)
    • Case plan
    • Education support plan (ESP)
    • Child health passport (CHP)
    • Transition from care (TFC)
    • Matters of concern (MOC)
    • Complaints
  • Children and young people's participation strategy
• 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
    • 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 for 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

Register your interest

We are collecting information on this form to record your interest in becoming an approved foster or kinship carer under the authority of the Child Protection Act 1999. All information provided by you on this form is strictly confidential and will only be used in relation to the carer recruitment process. It may be passed to authorised non-government organisations who participate in the recruitment process.

Expression of interest form

An asterisk (*) indicates a required field.

Your details

1. Title:*
2. Given name(s):*
3. Surname:*
4. Preferred name:
5. Gender:* Male Female
6. Please select your gender.
7. Date of birth:* / /
8. Phone:*
9. Best time to call:* Day time After hours Any time
10. Please choose a time to call.
11. Email:
12. Street address:*
13. Suburb/town:*
14. State:* Select... ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA
15. Postcode:*
16. My postal address differs from my residential address
    1. Postal address:
    2. Suburb/town:
    3. State: Select... ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA
    4. Postcode:

Other information

1. What do you identify yourself as? *

   Please select... Non-Indigenous Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

2. Apart from English, do you speak any other language? *

   No Yes Language:
3. Please indicate if you speak another language.

4. Apart from the Australian culture, do you belong to, or identify with, a particular nationality or cultural group (eg. French, Moari etc.)? *

   No Yes Culture:
5. Please choose your culture.

6. Do you practice a particular religion or belief? *

   No Yes Religion:
7. Please select your religion.

8. Were you born outside of Australia? *

   No Yes Country:
9. Please select where you were born.

10. How did you hear about the foster care program? *

    Please select... Television Radio Newspaper Poster/brochure Newsletter Child Safety Service Centre Fostering agency Friend/family member Foster carer Other Other:

11. Would you like to receive an information pack by post? *

    No Yes
12. Please select if you would like an information pack.

13. Note: Information can also be found at Prospective carer information sheets.

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Last updated

9 July 2009