Terms used in official statistics

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Assistant family


Definition:
Assistant family exercises care over a child in case of temporary desistance from exercise of care by a foster family or a person that runs a foster home in connection with rest, participation in training or stay in a hospital; unpredicted difficulties or fortuitous events in a foster family or foster home.

Source:
  • Act of 9 June 2011 on Family Support and Foster Care System
    Place of publication: (Dz. U. z 2022 r. poz. 447, z późn. zm.)

Contact person on methodology:
GUS – Departament Badań Społecznych i Rynku Pracy
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