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Family care for children and young people takes a new lease of life with the launch of the #AllTogetherNationalCampaignforfamilycare.

This initiative, promoted by the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security in partnership with the Social Security Institute, Casa Pia de Lisboa and Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (the three managing bodies of the family care system), aims to raise awareness and inform society on this topic and to attract potential applicants to foster families, reinforcing this support network for children and young people who need a safe and structured family environment.

Family care is a measure for the promotion and protection of the rights of the child decided by a Commission for the Protection of Children and Youth or a Court, where children and young people in danger are temporarily entrusted to a duly certified foster family, where they can integrate into a family environment, essential to their development and well-being.

Family reception is more than a social response, it is a commitment of love and solidarity assumed by the host families, which become an essential support in the promotion of the rights and protection of these children and young people in complementarity with the intervention of the State.

More information can be found here: Child and youth care family

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