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 2024 r. poz. 177, z późn. zm.)