The economical and social changes, the high unemployment and differentiation of inhabitants’ capital influenced an inconsiderable part of families: the birthrate is decreasing and the number of problematic families is decreasing, so the organization of child care is taking a quite important place in the systems of social support. The purpose of work – is to analyze the work with foster-parents (guardians) in the department of children rights protection service of Utena region. The goals of work: 1. To analyze the different literature in the aspect of investigated problem. 2. To clarify the estimations of work with foster-parents (guardians) in the department of children rights protection service of Utena region in the point of view of specialists. 3. To show the learning aspects of foster-parents (guardians). 4. To give recommendations to the specialists of municipality, the social workers of neighborhoods or children care institutions and the social pedagogues of schools. There was used the method of questioning trying to highlight how the foster-parents (guardians) and the specialists who are working with them are estimating the work of the department of children rights protection service of Utena region with the foster-parents (guardians). Also the observation of foster family was done trying to clarify the singularities of foster family. In the theoretical part of work was reviewed the comprehension of child care (ward), the influence of the family to the... [to full text]