Since the amendment of Organic Law 1/1996 on the Legal Protection of Minors (Law 26/2015) was carried out, Foster Care has been established as a first-choice resource for boys and girls whose ages are between 0 and 6 years, to replace Residential Foster Care. The objective is to provide a stable family nucleus that provides the emotional and material assistance appropriate to their needs. To ensure a positive result in achieving this objective, the process in which the needs of the host, the competencies and expectations of educators and the suitability of foster care are assessed are of utmost importance, since each one presents its own idiosyncrasy and needs, and requires references capable of covering them. That is why, from the Intervention in Family Foster Care team of the Province of Alicante, a model has been developed that covers the different areas involved, to work on the homogenization and standardization of said process. The proposed model assumes a collection of information about the different parties involved: the child or adolescents, the hosts and, if any, the biological children of the latter. Regarding the development of the evaluation at the social level, information will be requested from the centers and possible activities to which they attend. As for objective evaluation protocols, the WISC and SENA scales will be applied to the foster caregivers and the 16PF-5 and CUIDA questionnaires to the foster caregivers. With all this, it is intended to know the shape of the different pieces of the puzzle, to facilitate their subsequent fitting.
Keywords
foster care, suitability assessment, child, adolescents, abandonment
