Child welfare family care
Prerequisites
Child welfare is primarily based on open care support measures. If the child's health or growth and development are seriously threatened by lack of care or other circumstances, we must resort to substitute care, which usually takes the form of family care.
Placement in substitute care requires a client relationship with child welfare services and a placement decision made by the social worker of the municipality responsible for the child's affairs. The client support group for family care finds a suitable foster family for each child. The wishes of the child and the parents are taken into account when choosing the family.
The need for a family care placement is assessed on an individual basis, taking into account your child's needs and interests, in cooperation with the guardians, the child and the child welfare social worker. The placement decision is made by the social worker responsible for the child.
You can contact the emergency child welfare service if you feel that the health and development of a child close to you are endangered by the child's growth environment or their own behaviour. You can contact the emergency child welfare service during office hours at 09 4191 5500.
Service units
- Address
Kielotie 7 A
01300Vantaa
Finland- Phone
- +358 50 302 5283
- Call charge info
- local network charge/mobile call charge
- The 2 accessible parking spaces are located outdoors over 10 m from the entrance. The width of the parking spaces is at least 3.6 m.
- The pick-up and drop-off area is located in the vicinity of the entrance, giving easy access to the pavement.
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated and it uses movement-guiding surface material.
- The entrance stands out clearly and is illuminated. There is a canopy above the entrance.
- The entrance has a ramp under 6 m long.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly and the glass doors have contrast markings. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door opens automatically with a button.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The customer service point is located on floor 4.
- For moving around, there is a lift, which can hold a wheelchair; the door opens automatically. The floor numbers in the lift can be felt with fingers. The button for the exit floor stands out from the other buttons. (The minimum dimensions for an accessible lift are width 1.1 m and depth 1.4 m.)
- The customer service point has directions to the different facilities.
- The customer service point has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The doors in the customer service point are hard to perceive. The glass doors have contrast markings.
- The waiting room of the customer service point has no queue number system. The waiting room has chairs.
- The customer service point has a toilet marked as accessible on floor 4. The toilet does not have sufficient room for a wheelchair and the door is too narrow. One or both sides of the toilet seat lack a support rail.
Family care follows a client plan that is drawn up by social workers together with the child, parents and family carers. The plan is used to provide the child and the family with the right kind of support and monitor their rehabilitation. The child's chances of returning home are assessed throughout the process. Family care social work is responsible for the affairs of the child and the family during family care.
Services
The route to the main entrance
The main entrance
In the facility
- Address
Liljatie 24
01300Vantaa
Finland- Phone
- +358 43 826 6590
- Call charge info
- local network charge/mobile call charge
In the Reception Family Unit, children and young people are placed in reception families. The placement decision is made by a social worker. Children are primarily placed through an emergency placement decision, but they may also be placed as an open care support measure. The unit employs a senior instructor and nine social instructors.
Services
- Address
Kielotie 7 A
01300Vantaa
Finland- Postal address
- P.O. Box 160, 01301 Vantaa
- Phone
- +358 50 302 5283
- Call charge info
- local network charge/mobile call charge
- The pick-up and drop-off area is located in the vicinity of the entrance, giving easy access to the pavement.
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
- The entrance stands out clearly and is illuminated. There is a canopy above the entrance.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door opens easily manually.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The customer service point is located on floor 4.
- For moving around, there is a lift, which can hold a wheelchair; the door opens automatically. The floor numbers in the lift can be felt with fingers. The button for the exit floor stands out from the other buttons. (The minimum dimensions for an accessible lift are width 1.1 m and depth 1.4 m.)
- The doors in the customer service point are hard to perceive.
- The waiting room of the customer service point has no queue number system. The waiting room has chairs.
- The customer service point has a toilet marked as accessible on the same floor. One or both sides of the toilet seat lack a support rail.
Sometimes the resources of the family are not enough to ensure the growth and development of a child or young person. In such case, the upbringing of a child can be organised outside the home. The child or young person can be placed either with a family or in a child welfare institution.
Family care means organising the care and upbringing of a child in a foster home. Family carers of children and young people are also called foster parents.
Services
The route to the main entrance
The main entrance
In the facility
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