Aspects of daily life

Foster Parents

Here you can find information on different forms of fostering, your rights and obligations as foster parents, collaboration with the youth welfare office and on the foster child’s right of access to the biological parents.

Note: The range of general information and procedure descriptions offered in German however is more extensive than that offered in English. At present you will find the following subjects in English: Vehicles, Trading Licence, Studying, Moving House, Business Start-Up, Immigration.

If parents decide to entrust their child for a specific period or permanently to another family in full-time foster care, this is normally the result of long term counselling with the youth welfare office. In other cases the right of custody is withdrawn from the biological parents by a court order, if the family court is of the opinion that the parents are not prepared or are not in a position to protect the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of their child.

You can find financial assistance to which you are entitled as foster parents in the aspect of daily life "Family and Children".

To the procedures and services:

• Änderung der Lohnsteuerkarte/Ersatzbescheinigung - Eintragung von Kindern
• Bestellung der Pflegeeltern zum Pfleger oder Vormund beantragen
• Child Benefit
• Erlaubnis zur Vollzeitpflege beantragen
• Erlaubnis zur Vollzeitpflege - Verbleib des Kindes in der Pflegefamilie beantragen
• Führungszeugnis (einfach) beantragen
• Führungszeugnis (erweitert) beantragen
• Hilfe bei der Prozessführung (Prozesskostenhilfe)
• Hilfeplan aufstellen
• Hilfe zur Erziehung in Vollzeitpflege beantragen (Pflegegeld)
• Landesfamilienpass beantragen
• Landesprogramm STÄRKE - Bildungsgutschein einlösen
• Sorgerecht - Übertragung und Entzug beantragen