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Permanency planning: a permanent plan for lifelong roots - What is permanency planning for a child taken into care by the Director of Youth Protection?
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Description
The brochure Permanency planning: a permanent plan for lifelong roots - What is permanency planning for a child taken into care by the Director of Youth Protection? is intended for parents, foster families and anyone else involved in permanency planning for a child taken into care by the DYP. It is also aimed at young people who want to understand what permanency planning is all about.
This brochure shows why it is important for a child in care to have a permanent plan. It explains the principles guiding the choice of a permanent plan and the steps involved in achieving it. It describes each of the different types of permanent plans:
Preferred permanent plans :
- Keeping the child in the family environment
- Returning the child to the family environment
Alternative permanent plans :
- Placing the child with a significant person until the age of majority
- Adoption of the child
- Tutorship under the Youth Protection Act (YPA)
- Placing the child in a foster family until the age of majority
- Placing the child in a resource offering specific care until the age of majority
- Developing a permanent plan geared toward independent living
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Online since: September 16, 2010
Last modification: September 26, 2016
Author: MSSS
Publication no : 16-838-03A
No. ISBN : 978-2-550-76346-8
No. ISBN (PDF) : 978-2-550-76347-5