Statistics Norway

Child welfare

2   Children under protection 31 December, by age and type of assistance. 2003
Type of assistance 31 December Total1 Age
-2 3-5 6-12 13-17 18-22 Unknown
20032 27 345 1 702 4 035 10 695 8 756 2 152 5
               
Economic assistance 6 735  289  675 2 354 2 517  898 2
Kindergarten 3 580  640 2 613  327 0 0 0
Person selected to support child 3 245 33  143 1 483 1 389  196 1
Supervision 3 383  187  371 1 463 1 237  125 0
Visit home/relief support 7 613  368 1 292 3 971 1 825  156 1
Home adviser/relief at home 1 368  174  214  613  313 54 0
After school support 2 365 0 0 2 365 0 0 0
Leisure activity 1 801 12 35  941  721 92 0
Education/work  232 0 0 0  137 94 1
Medical examination and treatment  357 23 27 99  146 62 0
Treatment of children with special medical needs  141 7 8 43 69 14 0
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home)  181 81 44 31 19 6 0
Housing  506 0 0 0  188  318 0
Emergency shelter home  373 64 53  113  131 12 0
Foster home outside the family 3 563  147  364 1 291 1 343  418 0
Foster home within the family 1 244 50  106  498  476  114 0
Reinforced foster home outside the family 1 726 82  170  724  652 98 0
Reinforced foster home within the family  164 12 10 65 70 7 0
Children's home 1 301 6 23  148  902  222 0
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts  151 4 1 3 70 72 1
Living/working collective  111 0 0 6 68 37 0
Psychiatric treatment in institution 24 0 1 5 16 2 0
Policlinical psychiatric treatment  273 23 1 2  205 42 0
Multisystemic treatment  248 0 0 18  228 2 0
Parent Management Training 79 1 0 60 17 1 0
Other assistance 9 298  586 1 089 3 742 3 229  651 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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