Child welfare institutional care
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Sometimes the resources and means of the family are not enough to ensure the growth and development of a child or young person. In such case, care and support can be provided outside the home. The child or young person can be placed either with a family or in a child welfare institution. A social worker makes the placement decision based on the Child Welfare Act.
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Child welfare is primarily based on open care support measures. If the child’s health or growth and development are seriously threatened by lack of care or other circumstances, we must resort to substitute care, which usually takes the form of family care. If family care is not sufficient or otherwise suitable, the child may be placed in institutional care.
Placement in institutional care requires a client relationship with child welfare services and a placement decision made by the social worker of the municipality responsible for the child’s affairs.
The need for institutional care placement is assessed on an individual basis, taking into account the child's needs and interests, in cooperation with the guardians, the child and the child welfare social worker. The placement decision is made by the social worker responsible for the child.
You can contact the emergency child welfare service if you feel that the health and development of a child close to you are endangered by the child’s growth environment or their own behaviour. You can contact the emergency child welfare service during office hours at 09 4191 5500.