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When designing and executing the school program of a forster child, it is very important to cooperate between foster care and child protection services. The term foster child means a child placed outside of home environment either as a support of the non-institutional care, as an urgent investment the children and young people taken to the custody or as aftercare. These children will continue their education within the city there are placed in foster care. Usually the course of their school program is very disruptive; Moving between schools and classes happens frequently while the need for support and the responding to these needs varies from case by case. Doing well is school protects the child for the rest of their lives. Therefore, school program of a foster child is integral part of their future. Throughout the school program multidisciplinary cooperation is needed because the foster care is the home of a placed child and adolescent during the investment especially between school and home. The study carried out as a integrating literature look, to study the cooperation between the school and fostercare and find out the challenges and opportunities it includes. Five international scientific articles were chosen as a research material. The material was dealt with by analysing the results of earlier studies with respect to set research questions. As a conclusion of this study it can be said, that the cooperation between the foster care and school happens through concrete actions like organized meetings and communication with phone and messages. The enabling factors of such level of cooperation are; mutual trust between both parties, the understanding of a child and adolescent in the foster care, the impartial treatment and the part and activity of foster parents. During the study it came apparent that communication effectively between foster care and schools was the biggest challenge, since both parties saw the situation through their own perspective. This is important issue to discuss, since the goal of this type of cooperation is after all, the wellbeing of the foster child.