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State Child Protection Society, West Bengal

Directorate of Child Rights and Trafficking

Department of Women & Child Development and Social Welfare

Government of West Bengal

Foster Care

Foster care is an arrangement whereby a child lives, usually on a temporary basis, with unrelated family members. A child shall be preferably placed with child’s extended family or with close friends of the family who are known to child and when such options are either not available or not willing to take care of the child, the child may be placed in foster care. While placing a child in foster care, preference shall be given to those families that share similar cultural, tribal and /or community connection.


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