Pass mutual selection of the family and the child

After the information for candidates to become foster parents in a large foster family is included in the potential guardian, custodian, foster parent, caregiving parent log, the Children’s Service will give the candidates information on children in need of family care.

The children registered as children who are orphaned or deprived of parental care in the corresponding administrative territory can usually be placed into a large foster family for care and co-residence first.

While establishing contact and meeting with the child, the candidate caregiving parents must adhere to the recommendations and rules learned during the training course on the care of children who are orphaned and children deprived of parental care.

Outcome of Step:

You have been matched with the child. You have met, established contact, and offered your family, and the child has accepted your offer. This outcome is recorded in the statements of meeting and establishing the contact, as is the child’s consent, according to the child’s age and development.

File an application for creating a large foster family and place the child

You need to file an application for creating a large foster family, detailing any debt liabilities, with a duplicate of the package of documents.

Submit the application to the authority that creates the large foster family (Oblast, district state administration in Kyiv and Sevastopol, or the executive body of the city council).

The Oblast, district state administration in Kyiv and Sevastopol or the executive body of the city council must adopt a decision on creating a large foster family based on the application, the opinion of the Children’s Services and recommendations given by the social service centre.

Outcome of Step:

The Oblast, district state administration in Kyiv and Sevastopol or the executive body of the city council adopts a decision on creating a large foster family. The decision is documented as an ordinance.

Conclude the agreement on organising the activities of the large foster family

After the decision to create a large foster family, the caregivers and the decision-making authority conclude the agreement on organising the large foster family.

View the form of such agreement here: Agreement on organising activities of the large foster family

Outcome of Step:

The caregivers and the decision-making authority conclude the agreement on the large foster family which stipulates the list of obligations and the scope of responsibility of the caregiving parents in connection with the child, as well as obligations of the decision-making authority, to ensure the smooth operation of the large foster family.