Family or institutional form of care, exercised in case when it is impossible for the parents to provide care and education for a child.

The forms of family foster care:

1) foster family: a) related, b) non-professional, c) professional, including the professional one that performs the function of a family emergency house and professional specialist one;

2) foster home.

The forms of institutional foster care:

1) care and education centre;

2) regional care and therapy centre;

3) pre-adoptive intervention centre.

• Act of 9 June 2011 on Family Support and Foster Care System
  Place of publication: (Dz. U. z 2024 r. poz. 177, z późn. zm.)

• Pre-adoptive intervention centre
• Care and education center for children and young people
• Regional care and therapy centre
• Foster family
• Foster home