On this page, we explain what child welfare means, what services it includes, how you can access child welfare services, and how you can submit a child welfare notification.
A child welfare notification informs a child welfare social worker of a child who may need help. Here you can find out how to make the notification and what happens afterwards.
A child or family becomes a child welfare client if the service needs assessment for families with children finds that the child or family needs child welfare services. We provide information about diverse services that we offer to child welfare clients.
The purpose of child welfare services is to protect the rights of children. Care proceedings are the last resort to secure the child’s growth and development. Here we will tell you more about care proceedings and places of care.
Child welfare after-care helps the child or young person even after the end of the child welfare client relationship. Read more about after-care here.
Would you like to become a support person for a child or young person? Would your family like to be a support family or a short-term foster family? Children need your valuable help and, by helping others, you also help yourself.
