PSP info sheets

Information for children about permanency and safety, what permanency means, and how FACS is helping children have a permanent home.

Information for young people about permanency and safety, what permanency means, and how FACS is helping young people have a permanent home.

Summary of the review of the Permanency Coordinator Role.

Information about adoption as a way to a permanent home; where a child becomes a legal member of another family for life

Information about family preservation as a way to a permanent home; keeping a child with their parents, family or kin when it safe.

Information about guardianship as a way to a permanent home; when a person or people other than the parent has the legal responsibility of caring for a child until they reach adulthood.

Information about long-term care as a way to a permanent home; where a child lives in a long-term care arrangement (eg with a foster carer or relative)

Information about restoration as a way to permanent home; returning a child to live with their family when it safe to go home.

Information about the role of Permanency Coordinators in the Permanency Support Program (PSP).