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Department of Social Welfare encourages foster care system, trains 514 foster parents
By Hannah Awadzi Listen to article
The Department of Social Welfare is encouraging the use of foster parents to care for children who or abandoned due to disability and other factors.
Mr. Fred Sakyi Boafo, Deputy Director, Child, and Family Welfare Division, said the Department has so far trained 514 foster parents in various communities and has 171 children in foster care.
Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into the private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a foster parent or with a family member approved by the state.