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As a foster carer recently, please can I inform you that:
1.- Overseas travel with the children in your care is encouraged! FaCS appreciate the opportunity this provides the child/ren and they take care of applying for the passport!! You just pay for the holiday and FaCS or the agency may even provide spending money or allowances!
2.- Respite is supported/encouraged if it is necessary-but certainly NOT a requirement at all! I don't think FaCs would traumatise a 2/3 yo child by sending them away to a "camp" for days/nights, away from the only parents they have ever known, away from their home, pets, toys etc..just to fulfill some "respite requirement". No, maybe respite where the case worker takes a child for a couple of hours while mum does Christmas shopping, but certainly not sending them away on some camp. Unless of course, the carers required respite, then another carer may be sought. But this would factor in many reasons, not some "requirement".
In 3 and a half years, I had no respite- though I didn't want it either.
MOO, as a registered foster carer!
I am just going on what is available via the FACS site. There has never been a hint the children themselves were in Bali. Perhaps the chidren spent quality time with fgran and fpop.
May i ask is you are elsewhere than nsw because rules will be different