Statistics Norway

Child welfare

9   New cases of children placed under protection, by age and type of assistance. 2002-2005
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
             
20052 10 045 1 365 1 579 3 513 3 277  311
             
Economic assistance 2 252  301  283  700  838  130
Kindergarten 1 281  405  767  109 0 0
Person selected to support child  893 29 49  426  364 25
Supervision  547  152 79  197  100 19
Visit home/relief support 1 545  235  343  717  243 7
Home adviser/relief at home  628  156  100  218  147 7
After school support  477 0 0  477 0 0
Leisure activity  716 7 21  350  312 26
Education/work 44 0 0 0 33 11
Medical examination and treatment 89 23 11 24 25 6
Treatment of children with special medical needs 49 6 6 15 17 5
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home)  180  134 23 14 8 1
Housing 98 0 0 0 44 54
Emergency shelter home  479  133 51 97  189 9
Foster home outside the family  236 49 13 58 96 20
Foster home within the family  179 33 24 61 56 5
Reinforced foster home outside the family 84 26 8 12 35 3
Reinforced foster home within the family 22 4 3 4 11 0
Children's home  395 12 19 49  276 39
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts 23 2 1 0 12 8
Living/working collective 18 1 1 0 13 3
Psychiatric treatment in institution 7 0 0 0 5 2
Policlinical psychiatric treatment  163 0 17 70 69 7
Multisystemic treatment  303 0 0 11  285 7
Parent Management Training  124 3 21 84 16 0
Other assistance 5 278  690  656 1 811 1 961  160
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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