Statistics Norway

9   New cases of children placed under protection, by age and type of assistance. 2003
Type of assistance Total1 Age
-2 3-5 6-12 13-17 18- and unknown
20032 9 443 1 252 1 585 3 205 3 063  338
             
Economic assistance 2 255  270  261  638  889  197
Kindergarten 1 223  358  774 91 0 0
Person selected to support child  954 29 63  472  372 18
Supervision  671  149  103  230  166 23
Visit home/relief support 1 608  229  391  716  255 17
Home adviser/relief at home  618  160  103  209  133 13
After school support  456 0 0  456 0 0
Leisure activity  574 14 24  272  238 26
Education/work 52 0 0 0 40 12
Medical examination and treatment  116 25 13 27 39 12
Treatment of children with special medical needs 45 6 3 13 22 1
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home)  155  103 26 18 7 1
Housing  153 0 0 0 88 65
Emergency shelter home  485  123 55  105  190 12
Foster home outside the family  320 51 28 87  135 19
Foster home within the family  205 29 23 72 74 7
Reinforced foster home outside the family 83 21 4 14 37 7
Reinforced foster home within the family 21 5 1 4 11 0
Children's home  438 20 20 55  310 33
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts 51 4 1 1 30 15
Living/working collective 43 0 0 0 34 9
Psychiatric treatment in institution 8 0 1 2 5 0
Policlinical psychiatric treatment  120 15 0 0 95 10
Multisystemic treatment  279 0 0 13  255 11
Parent Management Training 32 0 0 23 9 0
Other assistance 4 338  515  544 1 582 1 561  136
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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