Statistics Norway

Child welfare

2   Children under protection 31 December, by age and type of assistance. 2002
Type of assistance 31 December Tota1 Age
-2 3-5 6-12 13-17 18-22 Unknown
20022 26 354 1 679 3 967 10 487 8 238 1 972 11
               
Economic assistance 6 714  316  748 2 425 2 396  823 6
Kindergarten 3 541  639 2 600  302 0 0 0
Person selected to support child 3 246 42  117 1 563 1 320  202 2
Supervision 3 152  177  361 1 401 1 076  135 2
Visit home/relief support 7 496  421 1 226 3 978 1 716  154 1
Home adviser/relief at home 1 337  153  235  610  307 32 0
After school support 1 222 0 0 1 222 0 0 0
Leisure activity 2 065 6 43 1 237  692 87 0
Education/work  208 0 0 0  130 78 0
Medical examination and treatment  304 19 15 91  119 59 1
Treatment of children with special medical needs  149 7 19 47 67 9 0
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home)  181 83 30 37 26 5 0
Housing  402 0 0 0  145  257 0
Emergency shelter home  398 75 74  101  130 16 2
Foster home outside the family 3 391  133  362 1 267 1 248  380 1
Foster home within the family 1 200 35  119  493  471 82 0
Reinforced foster home outside the family 1 646 95  164  675  607  105 0
Reinforced foster home within the family  107 0 4 34 59 10 0
Children's home 1 189 4 9  119  835  222 0
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts  170 9 4 3 80 74 0
Living/working collective  124 0 2 6 77 39 0
Psychiatric treatment in institution 38 0 2 7 25 4 0
Policlinical psychiatric treatment  700 0 66  350  238 46 0
Multisystemic treatment  199 0 0 11  185 3 0
Parent Management Training 18 0 5 13 - - 0
Other assistance 8 193  519  940 3 441 2 781  511 1
1  Including children with unknown age.
2  Each child may have several types of assistance. Hence, the sum of types of assistance is larger than the number of child who have received assistance.

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