The government will provide more support for foster families, so that children in need can receive care in a home environment. These may be children who were abandoned or ill-treated by their parents. Foster parents will get more targeted training customised for the needs of the children - for example, managing trauma. Also in the works is more training for foster parents of special needs children. Social and Family Development Minister Chan Chun Sing said: We are going to strengthen the training and counselling help to be made available to all our foster families. We are going to form support groups amongst our foster families so that we can share experiences, good practices and comfort each other when in need. He added: We will also learn from the experiences of other countries where we set up phone lines and hotlines to allow our foster families to access help and support if there is a crisis or event that requires more resources to be put in place. Channelnewsasia Article / MediaCorp Video: channelnewsasia/news/singapore/government-to-provide/1501328.html
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:00:00 +0000
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