Child Protection Measures Documentation and Foster Care

Documents Related to the Child (CRAE)

Observation Protocol Income

• Individualized Education Project (PEI)
• Protocol and Follow-up Sheets
• Socio-Reports

The Individualized Education Project (PEI)

• Papers plan the educational intervention of the child.
• Joint strategies for comprehensive care of the child personally.
• It is based on the information collected by social services.
• The tutor is responsible for developing the PEI.
• Sets objectives, actions to be performed, and timing.
• The center sets the frequency of assessments.

The Foster Care

• It is a measure of child protection.
• It is temporary (expires one day).
• The main objective is to provide a family environment.
• Recipients have the right to the upbringing and education of the child.
• Contact with the family of origin is maintained (the child remains in contact).

Modes of Reception

• Reception in Extended Family: The care is entrusted to a family member of the extended family.
• Foster Family Outside: The child lives in a family that belongs to the biological [family structure is implied but incomplete in original text].

According to the Intention of Fostering

Foster Emergency:

• Aimed at children 0–6 years.
• The duration is 3 to 6 months while a study on the family is conducted.

Foster Simple or Short-Term:

• Maximum duration 2 years while the study of the biological family is done.
• The aim is that the child can return to their biological family.

Foster Long-Term or Permanent:

• Long duration: years, even up to 18 years.
• For difficult-to-solve family problems: addiction, long sentences, psychological problems, etc.

Pre-adoptive Foster Care:

• Reception is final.
• Protection measure prior to adoption.
• It discards the possibility of returning to the parents.

Foster Weekends and Holidays:

• Offers holidays and vacations in a family atmosphere.
• Families are called collaborators (the holiday period can be a month; the minimum age to host is 9 years). Example: Saharawi children.

Fostering Children with Special Needs:

• Designed for children with specific attention needs.
• They receive special training and support.

Adoption

Adoption is a measure of child protection.

• It is a legal process to integrate the child into a family.
• It occurs through a court decision, rejecting parental protest.
• It creates a link of affiliation between the adopting parents, the adopted child, and the biological children of the adopting parents.
• The link with the biological family is completely lost.
• The child adopts the surname of the adoptive parents.

Type of Family

• Traditional Family
• Modern Family
• Family Double-Sided
• Family Semi-Traditional
• Nuclear Family
• Extended Family
• Polinuclear: Extended: New types of family relationships
• Family Added:
• Householder: Educating Families:
• Families Separated or Divorced:
• Families Reconstructed:
• Gay Families:
• Families of Spouses Only:
• Families Monofilial: