support. Support is granted client. Also the social based on how binding and services and support demanding the tasks of the needed by the carer carer are. are written into the plan. Foster care (where Yes -Most Family care refers to 24 According to section 1 In 2013, 1266 children are placed in commonly hour or part-time care that of the Family Care persons were the domestic used as foster happens either in a private Act, the aim of family living in foster environment of a care in child home outside the person’s care is to enable care for family that is not their protection own home or in the home-like care and people with own) -Will person’s own home. Family close relationships for disabilities. potentially be care can also be organised persons placed in No Perhehoito increasingly as professional family care, family care and information is used as a in which case at least one of enhance their basic available on form of care the two carers has a security and social how many of also for suitable training and relations. According them are elderly and adequate experience of to section 5 of the children. disabled caring or upbringing. Family Care Act, persons in the Family carer makes a social relations in the future commission agreement family home and the with the municipality carer’s capability to responsible for arranging meet the needs of the care. The client pays an persons placed in agreed fee to the care in their benefit municipality and the are evaluated when municipality covers the the family home’s carer’s is pay and suitability is compensations for the assessed. The material costs of the care. municipality that is responsible for organising the service is responsible for monitoring that the person placed in family care receives
support. Support is granted based on how binding and demanding the tasks of the carer are. client. Also the social services and support needed by the carer are written into the plan. Foster care (where children are placed in the domestic environment of a family that is not their own) Perhehoito Yes -Most commonly used as foster care in child protection -Will potentially be increasingly used as a form of care also for elderly and disabled persons in the future Family care refers to 24 hour or part-time care that happens either in a private home outside the person’s own home or in the person’s own home. Family care can also be organised as professional family care, in which case at least one of the two carers has a suitable training and adequate experience of caring or upbringing. Family carer makes a commission agreement with the municipality responsible for arranging care. The client pays an agreed fee to the municipality and the municipality covers the carer’s is pay and compensations for the material costs of the care. According to section 1 of the Family Care Act, the aim of family care is to enable home-like care and close relationships for persons placed in family care and enhance their basic security and social relations. According to section 5 of the Family Care Act, social relations in the family home and the carer’s capability to meet the needs of the persons placed in care in their benefit are evaluated when the family home’s suitability is assessed. The municipality that is responsible for organising the service is responsible for monitoring that the person placed in family care receives In 2013, 1266 persons were living in foster care for people with disabilities. No information is available on how many of them are children.