Flexible Foster Homes is a development project under Sammen for barnets beste. The project aims to develop a more flexible and knowledge-based measure for cases where the child welfare services are considering a care order, or where care has already been transferred without giving up the goal of reunification.

The aim is to strengthen the basis for earlier, more precise and better adapted measures in the best interests of the child. The project will develop a knowledge base, a theory of change and practical tools that can support foster homes, municipal child welfare services and Bufetat in their further work.

Flexible Foster Homes will contribute to clarifying and strengthening parental functioning through support, training and close follow-up, within safe and responsible frameworks. The project will also lay the groundwork for further testing and evaluation of the measure.

Project manager: Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Partner: Bufetat, Eastern Region