Family host and family assistant: what differences?

Verified 12 September 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Tableau - Main differences between the family host and the family assistant

Friendly family

Family Assistant

(host family)

Welcome person

Unrelated elderly or disabled adult up to and including 4th degree

Minor or Young child protection measure or with medical, social or therapeutic management

Examples of services to be provided

  • Accommodation
  • Assisting with autonomy
  • Participation in family life
  • Accommodation
  • Education
  • Assisting with autonomy
  • Accompaniment of the minor in his relations with his family

Method of payment

  • Either over-the-counter family reception : the host person pays the family host directly
  • Either salaried family care : the family host is an employee of an employer organization.

The family assistant is an employee of the legal person who entrusts him with the minor

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