A terceirização do cuidado: o serviço família acolhedora em face do desmonte das políticas sociais

This article is the result of bibliographic and documentary research that investigated the Foster Family Service (SFA). To this end, we soughtthe necessary theoretical framework, as well as data presented by official bodies and legislation relevant to the topic. The study pointed out how the current scenario of crisis and dismantling of the Brazilian State, in the face of neoliberalism, and in its current phase, ultraneoliberalism, with its counter-reform proposals, reduce investments in public policies, resulting in the social lack of protection of families, favoring various forms of violence against children and adolescents, leading to their institutional or family fostering. In this scenario, the State has intensified practices previously used, such as volunteer work, offered by the SFA. The study concludes that the reduction of the State’s burden required by neoliberal policies and its outsourcing of child care by civil society through volunteering will compromise the continuity, in the medium or long term, of the SFA.