Statistics Norway

Child welfare

5   Children under protection during the year, by age and type of assistance. 2006
Type of assistance Total1 Age
-2 3-5 6-12 13-17 18-22 Unknown
20062 40 442       2 381       5 101       15 107       13 492       4 286 75
               
Economic assistance 13 961  601 1 301 4 606 5 242 2 174 37
Kindergarten 5 372  909 3 212 1 251 0 0 0
Person selected to support child 4 921 69  181 2 064 2 134  470 3
Supervision 5 328  311  563 2 116 1 933  403 2
Visit home/relief support 10 998  503 1 633 5 531 2 983  344 4
Home adviser/relief at home 2 678  296  393 1 076  749  163 1
After school support 4 356 0 1 4 355 0 0 0
Leisure activity 4 215 27  120 1 830 1 868  368 2
Education/work  581 0 0 0  339  238 4
Medical examination and treatment  558 34 38  140  249 97 0
Treatment of children with special medical needs  144 5 9 48 56 26 0
Parents/child places (incl. maternity home)  459  224  101 91 35 8 0
Housing/lodging 1 391 0 0 0  221 1 156 14
Emergency shelter home 1 324  203  186  338  560 36 1
Foster home outside the family 4 555  164  376 1 562 1 680  756 17
Foster home within the family 1 742 69  137  602  718  214 2
Reinforced foster home outside the family 2 561  122  225  949  987  272 6
Reinforced foster home within the family  364 20 27  141  142 34 0
Children's home 2 484 29 47  269 1 532  604 3
Institution for alcoholics and drug addicts  233 1 1 0  104  127 0
Living/working collective  143 1 0 4 76 62 0
Psychiatric treatment in institution 19 0 0 1 13 5 0
Policlinical psychiatric treatment  590 0 46  218  244 80 2
Multisystemic treatment  696 0 0 32  625 39 0
Parent Management Training  584 6 84  372  116 6 0
Other assistance 20 545 1 298 2 350 7 470 7 507 1 897 23
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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