ISBN : 9782296565258
ACCUEIL ET PLACEMENT FAMILIAL, UN LIEN POUR LA VIE
Switzerland is completely reforming its legislature regarding foster care and the conditions required in the foster environment. Foster families form part of the framework of specialised education put in place by districts for the care of children. The families offer an alternative to institutional care, indeed the only alternative, for the short or long term, for children from 0 to 4 years. At the present time we need to ask the following questions : are foster families still a means of care adapted to the needs of the children placed with them? Are professional families needed? How are foster families taken into consideration as part of the child's environment? In Frenchspeaking Switzerland several developments have been made to improve the status of foster families, how they are recognised, their training, and the support they receive. The speaker proposes to present, alongside her colleagues from French-speaking...