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

Carer handbook

The Carer handbook (PDF 4.2 MB) was produced with valuable input from foster and kinship carers, and provides information to assist all carers with the day to day issues they face in caring for children - from health and education matters to decision making, legal issues and emotional well-being. It also details the financial assistance available.

• Table of contents (PDF 57 KB)
• Foreword and introduction (PDF 190 KB)
• Support for Queensland's foster and kinship carers
  • Our commitment to providing care (PDF 126 KB)
  • Caring for carers (PDF 221 KB)
  • Money matters (PDF 323 KB)
  • Concerns and complaints (PDF 128 KB)
  • Important contacts (PDF 133 KB)
• A guide for foster and kinship carers
  • Placements, case plans, care agreements and blue card (PDF 192 KB)
  • Decision making (PDF 150 KB)
  • Health (PDF 275 KB)
  • Education (PDF 233 KB)
  • Commonwealth Government Benefits (PDF 340 KB)
  • Relationships (PDF 221 KB)
  • Behaviour management (PDF 183 KB)
  • Identity - a child's sense of self (PDF 181 KB)
  • Legal matters (PDF 218 KB)
  • Travel (PDF 148 KB)
  • Matters of concern (PDF 238 KB)
  • Change in circumstances, ex gratia payments and the renewal process (PDF 139 KB)
  • Time to move on (PDF 273 KB)

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Last updated

20 January 2009