Social services, children, adolescents and families

The statistic on children placed outside the home and numbers of customers in community care. For those housed outside the home, the statistic includes details on where the child or young person has been placed and how long the placement is to last. Information on community care customers classified according to age group is available on questions including the number of new customers and the number of child protection notifications that have been made.

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Lastensuojelu

The statistic includes information that is collected from local authorities twice a year. The information is collected in the wellbeing services counties in mainland Finland.

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Lastensuojelun sosiaalityön henkilöstömitoitus

The statistic includes information that is collected from local authorities twice a year on the implementation of time limits set in legislation. The information is collected in the wellbeing services counties in mainland Finland.

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Lastensuojelun käsittelyajat

The information on approved child support agreements and their size categories, agreements on caring for a child, residential arrangements, and visitation rights, as well as confirmation of parenthood is collected annually.

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Perheoikeudelliset palvelut

Municipalities provide information each year on the following social services for families with children: 

Child and family counselling (Sotkanet)

Non-institutional social welfare services (Sotkanet)

Child welfare (Sotkanet)

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Lapsiperheiden sosiaalipalvelut

THL has published information on early education collected from municipalities and information from Kela on children cared for with the support of private care up to 2020.

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Varhaiskasvatus

The statistic describes the health, well-being, and services of children and young people and the assistance they have received, classified according to school levels, areas, and population groups. The key part of the statistic is the information collected in the survey from primary education pupils in classes 4 and 5, and 8 and 9, from students in years 1 and 2 of both upper secondary school and vocational education institutions. The survey is conducted every two years.

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Lasten ja nuorten hyvinvointi – Kouluterveyskysely

The statistic describes the health and well-being of young people, classified according to school levels, areas, and population groups. The key part of the statistic is the information collected in the survey from primary education pupils in classes 8 and 9, from students in years 1 and 2 of both upper secondary school and vocational education institutions. The survey is conducted every two years.

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Nuorten arki – Kouluterveyskysely

The results of the statistical report are based on the collection of data for the FinLapset survey conducted in 2020. The data collection comprises the welfare, health, and functional capacity and lifestyles of families with children, the safety of the growth environment, as well as the need, availability and adequacy of services and support.

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Vauvaperheiden hyvinvointi – FinLapset-kyselytutkimus

The statistics describe the health, well-being, use of services, and how families with small children have experienced the services, according to region and population group. The data included in the statistics are based on the results of the national Children's Health, Well-being, and Services survey (LTH). Data collected from the parents of young children on families’ welfare forms the core of the statistics.

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Pienten lasten ja heidän perheidensä hyvinvointi

The statistics contain information on the incidence of excess body weight and obesity among children and young people. The numbers are based primarily on height and weight data recorded during visits to child health clinics and school health care health examinations, which is collected from patient data systems as part of automatic collection of electronic Avohilmo data.

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Lasten ja nuorten ylipaino ja lihavuus