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

Statement of commitment

The Statement of commitment between the Department of Child Safety, foster care services and the carers of Queensland (PDF 732 KB), reflects the importance of sharing our responsibilities and respecting each other's rights in providing the necessary services that keep children and young people safe from harm and promote their well-being.

Our first priority is to provide safe, quality care for children and young people who, for many reasons, are unable to live with their parents for varying periods of time.

It is the productive partnership that we have established with foster and kinship carers in our community that enables us to provide safe and supportive family environments for these children and young people.

Society is changing rapidly, and families, including carer families, face new roles and increasing pressures.

The statement of commitment acknowledges the difficult task before us. It is an expression of our sincere determination to work together to meet the challenges of the future, to ensure that children and young people in our care have access to high-quality services which promote their emotional, physical, social and educational development.

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Last updated

3 August 2007