Foster care is a process by which the state provides safety and shelter to children whom their biological parents cannot give family environment. It is basically a business chain consisting of several processes - from finding, educating and preparing foster parents to organising children included in the foster care and monitoring their development.
Using the functional decomposition methodology, this business chain was analysed. The research finds many positive indicators in the field of foster care. The number of children in need of foster care is declining and the educational structure of foster carers is rising. In the April 2019 a change in family law has been adopted. It has introduced many positive and urgent innovations in this area. From the process analysis standpoint, the most important change is the transfer of decision-making from the social work centres to the courts. This involves an additional organizational unit in the process thus complicating it and making it more expensive. Decisions are no more made by the operating staff that performers the process and who have a complete overview of what is happening and going on in the biological and in the foster care family.
I am espousing of amending the family law, which would make parenting obligations more stringent and allow children to be adopted more liberally. Foster care and adoptions should be decided by workers who have a comprehensive overview of the biological family, foster carers, children and couples who wish to adopt children.
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