This knowledge needs to remain paramount to ensure the children and young people in foster care are provided many opportunities to form consistent and stable relationships and connections with carers and reliable adults. [...] Through our Diversity and Inclusion Framework and Policy we are working to remove the barriers to service access, improve cultural safety, and to drive the development and delivery of inclusive services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ communities, people with disability and people from multicultural and multifaith communities. [...] As a foster carer you may have the opportunity to get to know the child or young person in your care and begin to understand the gaps in the supports available to them. [...] As a foster carer, your responsibilities are to: • put the best interests of the child or young person first • provide a safe and nurturing home • respect and proactively maintain a child or young person’s connections to family, community, and culture, according to their case plan • support the permanency objective for the child or young person • provide culturally appropriate care to children and. [...] As a foster carer, you can expect your agency and/or the department to: • action your needs as soon as possible, to assist you in caring for the child or young person • include you in planning and seek your views in care team meetings • consider and respect the health and wellbeing, culture and religion of you and your family • consider your safety when planning about the disclosure of your addres.
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