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honorary workers and are available in all regions. The family support services can be funded by nursing care insurance, health insurance and social welfare agencies. The replacement service is funded by nursing care insurance. Foster care (where children are placed in the domestic environment of a family that is not their own) Pflegefamilie (foster family) Yes This service is for children and teenagers. Children and young people with physical, intellectual or mental disabilities Foster care is always full time. It can be short term (until biological parents are able to care for the child again) or The youth welfare offices remain responsible for contact with children and families as well as for the overall supervision of foster care. The only available statistics is about children with psycho-social disabilities (seelisch behinendert). In 2013 – 106 children were in
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