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Increased activity in children's institutions in 2008
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Children’s institutions, 2008

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Increased activity in children's institutions in 2008

The statistics for children's institutions in 2008 show an increase in activity; in services, man-years and expenditure. One explanation is that at the end of 2007, care centres for lone juvenile asylum-seekers were made the responsibility of the child welfare authorities.

There were a total of 1 850 beds in children's institutions as per 31 December 2008; an increase of 7 per cent over 2007. Fifty-five per cent of the beds were in private institutions, and of those, about one out of three were in ideal institutions. The number of bed-days during the year was 564 000. Acute stays accounted for 12 per cent of total stays, and of those, three out of four took place in public institutions. By the end of 2008, 93 per cent of the total number of resident children were aged 13 years or more, and there were somewhat more boys institutionalised than girls (nearly 60 per cent boys).

The institution's gross expenditure was NOK 3.4 billion in 2007; NOK 1.8 billion in public and NOK 1.6 billion in private institutions. Gross expenditure per bed-day was NOK 6 100, and the stays were more expensive in state than in private institutions.

The number of man-years in the institutions increased by 4 per cent to a total of 4 758. Most of the increase took place in state institutions.

Care centres for lone juvenile asylum-seekers explain much of the increase in institution activity in 2008, and accounted for 9 per cent of institutionalised children as per 31 December.

Ideal and other private institutions: Ideal institutions are owned by organisations with an exclusively ideal purpose, and all profits are transferred back to this purpose.

Administrative expenditure and man-years are treated somewhat differently in private and public institutions.

Acute, behavioural, voluntary and care stays in institutions are defined according to the Act relating to child welfare services.

Data by ownership and region: in the tables below, data are presented according to ownership. Data according to region are published in StatBank.

Slightly revised data for 2007 are published together with the data for 2008.

Links to more statistics on child welfare:

Municipal child welfare: http://www.ssb.no/barneverng/

National child welfare: http://www.ssb.no/bave_statres/

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