New regulations allow children to be placed under foster care
The ministry of law and gender has enacted new regulations governing foster care for children under state care, the first institutional and legal framework of its kind in the Maldives.
24 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
The ministry of law and gender has enacted new regulations governing foster care for children under state care, the first institutional and legal framework of its kind in the Maldives.
The regulations published in the government gazette today lays out procedures for placing children under foster care and specifies eligibility criteria for foster parents.
Children can be placed in foster care for six months, during which a case worker from the gender ministry will conduct a field assessment of the child’s treatment by the foster parents.
Based on the assessment report, the foster period can be extended a further six months, after which the foster parents will be granted permanent custody of the child.
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