Statistics Norway

Child welfare

9   New cases of children placed under protection, by age and type of assistance. 2002-2006
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
2004 9 899 1 290 1 585 3 425 3 284  315
2005 10 045 1 365 1 579 3 513 3 277  311
             
20062 10 362 1 401 1 563 3 465 3 621  312
             
Economic assistance 2 274  138  273  272  653  938
Kindergarten 1 228 0  444  683  101 0
Person selected to support child  782 32 30 40  328  352
Supervision  613 16  128  101  212  156
Visit home/relief support 1 543 9  229  340  685  280
Home adviser/relief at home  647 8  150  113  221  155
After school support  487 0 0 0  487 0
Leisure activity  668 26 14 33  290  305
Education/work 59 9 0 0 0 50
Medical examination and treatment 79 6 13 10 16 34
Treatment of children with special medical needs 21 0 4 1 4 12
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home)  202 1  141 26 21 13
Housing  138 56 0 0 0 82
Emergency shelter home  507 15  110 62 88  232
Foster home outside the family  295 14 47 20 72  142
Foster home within the family  179 1 29 26 42 81
Reinforced foster home outside the family  102 7 29 5 27 34
Reinforced foster home within the family 23 0 6 1 5 11
Children's home  463 35 22 21 63  322
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts 35 8 1 1 0 25
Living/working collective 34 10 0 0 1 23
Psychiatric treatment in institution 5 1 0 0 0 4
Policlinical psychiatric treatment  124 3 0 10 56 55
Multisystemic treatment  306 5 0 0 11  290
Parent Management Training  196 1 6 37  130 22
Other assistance 5 779  157  724  749 1 917 2 232
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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