One explanation for this is the prevalence of permanent temporary foster care.
These reception centres are also used for the temporary care of children where it is necessary to change the foster or other home.
Eliminating the license requirement, as the board is trying to do, would substantially cut down on temporary care but not end the practice outright.
Good as they might be, starship sickbays could offer temporary care at best.
The Home at this time was providing temporary care for youngsters facing some type of disruption in their family life.
They are adults with medical problems that require temporary residential care.
The social worker, concerned for the health of the child, placed the baby in temporary foster care.
The boys had been in temporary foster care before in London, which had not appeared to cause a problem.
The major cause for temporary care worldwide is poverty, not abuse, neglect or abandonment.
When will we understand the human cost to children and society of having children grow up in "temporary" care?