Child welfare 2023

Statistics for 2023 published

Statistical report Child welfare 2023 was published in Finnish on the 2nd of May 2024. It will appear later in English on these pages.
Statistics for 2023 in Finnish

Development of the main key figures in child welfare since 2010.

Tables

Indicators in Sotkanet

Background information

Description of statistics

The Child welfare statistics consist of child-specific and service-specific information submitted by municipalities. The statistics are published annually in June.

The Register of Child Welfare contains information collected on children and young people whose placement has been a support measure in open care, an urgent placement, a placement into care or an after-care measure. The statistics also contain the details of the child’s or the young person’s placement location and the duration of the placement. The information has been collected since 1991.

The information on open care in child welfare is received annually from municipalities as data at the level of figures (not as data on persons, such as placement details). In addition to the number of clients, information is submitted on child welfare notifications, investigations of the need for child welfare, client plans and client relationships that have ended. The information has been collected since 2008. The statistics also contain child welfare information from the statistics on time limits and the statistics on social welfare activities.

The information is mainly received comprehensively from the entire country.