what does being a carer mean? there are a few different types of care andfor young children there are two forms of family-based care: that's foster care andkinship care. kinship care is what we really try to work for children, because we wantto keep them within the context of their family, with people that they know. kinship doesn'tjust mean relatives; it also means community members - it could be a baseball coach ora teacher. or, in an indigenous community, an aboriginalor torres strait islander community, that may be the actual physical community thatthey come from, or a similar community that has similar customs or a language group. so,"kin" is a very broad-ranging term and we
often look at grandparents, aunties and unclesto care for children. then the other type of family-based care isfoster care. obviously, there are heaps of people in our state who just love kids andthey really want to help other kids, as well as their own. and they come from all walksof life; they do all sorts of different things. they might be single people, they might bemarried, they might be groups of adults that live in a household together...and they will foster children. so what happens with foster parents is that they are trainedand given information about children, and why they come into care and the needs of thosechildren. kinship carers obviously get support froma kinship-support agency, but they already
know the child so they know a lot about theirneeds and their habits and their desires,
which is really excellent. both of the...both sets of carers have personal history checks so that we can be sure that the peoplethat are caring for these children have really good intentions and are going to look afterthe children in the best way possible.
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