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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

Info kit for children and young people in care

The Info kit is a resource for children and young people in care. It comprises seven child friendly fact sheets to provide information about key departmental process that impact on children and young people in care. They cover topics such as case plans, family group meetings, child health passports, education support plans, transition from care, matters of concern and complaints.

Topics covered include:

• Family group meeting (FGM)
• Case plan
• Education support plan (ESP)
• Child health passport (CHP)
• Transition from care (TFC)
• Matters of concern (MOC)
• Complaints

The paper-based fact sheets are packaged into a CD case and are designed to be child and young person friendly and feature easy to read language and colourful designs.

The kit was jointly produced by the CREATE Foundation and the Department of Child Safety, on the recommendation of the CREATE Foundation's Be Heard report.

The production of the kit involved consultation with children and young people, Foster Care Queensland, PeakCare, the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Partnership and Legal Aid.

Further information

For more information about this resource, contact our Children in Care Team.

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Last updated

15 January 2009