In Belgium, the Communities are responsible for the provision of child and family services.

The current minister in the Bourgeois Government, which assumed office in 2014, is Jo Vandeurzen of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party.

During the second state reform in 1980, the responsibility for child and family policy was transferred to the newly created Communities of Belgium.

During the reform of the Flemish public administration in 2006, the institution became a so-called internally autonomous agency with legal personality of the Welfare, Public Health and Family policy area.

[5] In June 2018, the Flemish government decided on a proposal of minister Jo Vandeurzen to merge the Child and Family Agency with the Flemish Youth Welfare Agency, in order to achieve an integrated policy around children.