Statistics Norway

10   New cases of children placed under protection, by age and type of assistance. 2002 (New 28 October 2003)
Type of assistance Total1 Age
-2 3-5 6-12 13-17 18- and
unknown
20022 8 855 1 312 1 552 3 092 2 666  233
             
Economic assistance 2 272  299  309  678  857  129
Kindergarten 1 328  387  847 94 - -
Person selected to support child  923 36 47  460  361 19
Supervision  598  148 97  205  133 15
Visit home/relief support 1 793  297  405  802  287 2
Home adviser/relief at home  538  150 88  194  100 6
After school support  259 - -  259 - -
Leisure activity  595 7 13  316  242 17
Education/work 47 - - - 37 10
Medical examination and treatment 67 21 7 19 18 2
Treatment of children with special medical needs 37 8 3 8 15 3
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home)  161  104 27 18 9 3
Housing 96 - - - 63 33
Emergency shelter home  548  152 56  109  218 13
Foster home outside the family  225 54 30 53 77 11
Foster home within the family  171 24 24 53 66 4
Reinforced foster home outside the family 87 28 7 26 23 3
Reinforced foster home within the family 18 2 - 3 12 1
Children's home  321 8 13 42  235 23
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts 53 13 3 1 27 9
Living/working collective 23 - - - 20 3
Psychiatric treatment in institution 18 - 1 5 11 1
Policlinical psychiatric treatment  224 - 30 92 93 9
Multisystemic treatment  185 - - 5  176 4
Parent Management Training 13 - 3 10 - -
Other assistance 3 507  465  457 1 279 1 223 83
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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