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Children’s institutions, 2010

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More state and less private activity

The statistics for children’s institutions in 2010 show a turn towards more state and less private activity. The main reason is that the state’s share of institutional services connected to lone juvenile asylum-seekers increased sharply.

Man-years in children's institutions, by sex and ownership. 2010

The number of bed-days in children’s institutions fell by 3.8 per cent from 2009, to 554 000 in 2010. 49 per cent of the bed-days took place in private institutions, down from 54 per cent the previous year. There were 1 425 children institutionalised as per 31 December 2010, compared with 1 545 in 2009.

The institutions’ operating expenditure amounted to NOK 3.9 billion in 2010; 1.6 per cent more than in 2009. Operating expenditure per bed-day was NOK 7 000. Stays in state institutions is about NOK 600 more expensive than this average.

Bed-days for lone juvenile asylum-seekers made up 13 per cent of the total, the same proportion as the previous year. The state institutions’ share of this number, however, increased from 47 to 72 per cent.

Of all stays, care stays (which also include lone juvenile asylum-seekers) were the most common (37 per cent). Acute stays accounted for 11 per cent of total stays, and seven out of ten acute stays took place in public institutions. By the end of 2010, 85 per cent of the total number of resident children was aged 13 years or more, and there were more boys institutionalised than girls (58 per cent boys).

The number of man-years in the institutions increased by 2.7 per cent from 2009 till 2010. Women accounted for 57 per cent of the man-years.

Ideal and other private institutions: Ideal institutions are owned by organisations with an exclusively ideal purpose, and all profits are transferred back to this purpose.

Administrative expenditure and man-years are treated somewhat differently in private and public institutions.

Acute, behavioural, voluntary and care stays in institutions are defined according to the Act relating to child welfare services.

Data by ownership and region: In the tables below, data are presented according to ownership. Data according to region are published in StatBank.

Links to more statistics on child welfare:

Child Welfare Services

National child welfare

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