Selection criteria for foster daycare parents

Abstract

The foster daycare programme focuses on children from a problematic rearing situation, who are placed in foster daycare families for a part of the day. One of the key issues is to select suitable foster day care parents for guiding a foster daycare child. It emerges from the results that there is a fair chance that foster daycare parents with a poor parenting discipline will cease to be available as foster daycare parents. It also appears that an early discontinuation of a placement is associated with a non-optimal fit between child and foster daycare parents. Foster daycare parents with a poor quality of parenting discipline have a greater chance of terminating the placement prematurely than foster daycare parents with a good quality of discipline. It may be concluded that foster daycare parents with a high-quality parenting discipline are suitable foster daycare parents.