Statistics Norway

Child welfare

9   New cases of children placed under protection, by age and type of assistance. 2002-2004
Type of assistance Total1 Age
-2 3-5 6-12 13-17 18- and unknown
2002 8 855 1 312 1 552 3 092 2 666  233
2003 9 443 1 252 1 585 3 205 3 063  338
             
20042 9 899 1 290 1 585 3 425 3 284  315
             
Economic assistance 2 446  289  278  719  988  172
Kindergarten 1 307  368  842 97 0 0
Person selected to support child  991 32 51  494  387 27
Supervision  626  128  102  226  156 14
Visit home/relief support 1 632  253  376  719  274 10
Home adviser/relief at home  653  176 96  224  150 7
After school support  535 0 0  535 0 0
Leisure activity  639 14 22  287  288 28
Education/work 58 0 0 0 41 17
Medical examination and treatment  103 17 11 23 46 6
Treatment of children with special medical needs 22 5 0 8 7 2
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home)  191  143 29 12 4 3
Housing  133 0 0 0 68 65
Emergency shelter home  463  129 61 96  167 10
Foster home outside the family  276 47 34 67  115 13
Foster home within the family  190 23 25 58 81 3
Reinforced foster home outside the family 96 19 6 18 49 4
Reinforced foster home within the family 21 3 3 3 12 0
Children's home  426 19 16 58  312 21
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts 35 2 0 1 25 7
Living/working collective 39 0 0 2 27 10
Psychiatric treatment in institution 6 0 0 3 2 1
Policlinical psychiatric treatment  121 23 0 0 93 5
Multisystemic treatment  304 0 0 7  291 6
Parent Management Training 88 3 0 73 12 0
Other assistance 4 842  565  619 1 743 1 783  132
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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