DOI: 10.5279/dk-sa-dda-2421
title: Indsatsen overfor socialt belastede børn, unge og familier, 1996
title: Socially Afflicted Children, Young People and Families, 1996

description: Undersøgelsen har til formål at tilvejebringe oplysninger til en statistisk og videnskabelig belysning af, hvordan de nye regler i Bistandsloven vedrørende støtte til børn og unge, der trådte i kraft den 1. januar 1993, har påvirket kommunernes praksis ved anbringelse af børn og unge uden for hjemmet.
        
        Undersøgelsens primære datamateriale indsamles af Socialforskningsinstituttet i 1996 som interview af de udtrukne forældre og skemaer udfyldt af kommunerne samt plejefamilierne eller plejeinstitutioner.
description: The purpose of this survey is to obtain information for statistical and scientific assessment of how the new rules in the Public Assistance Act concerning support to children and young people which came into force on 1 January, 1993 have influenced the practice in the municipalities in connection with the placing of children outside the home.
        
        The data material is obtained by means of interviews with the selected parents and questionnaires completed by the municipalities and the foster-parents or the foster homes.
      
            
        1. The following information is included from the interviews with the selected parents:
        
        - The parents'' age, forms of cohabitation, housing conditions
        
        and occupational status.
        
        - The parents'' experiences as regards social actions during
        
        childhood.
        
        - What caused the placing outside the home?
        
        - Who took the intitiative to the placing outside the home?
        
        - Section of the Act used when placing the child in foster-care.
        
        - Was there an investigation prior to the placing in foster-care?
        
        - If yes: Were the parents involved in the investigation,
        
        knowledge of the investigation. Were children from 12 and 15
        
        years, respectively, involved.
        
        - Was an action programme made up?
        
        - If yes: The parents'' involvement in the work with the action
        
        programme, influence on and knowledge of the content of the
        
        action programme.
        
        Were children from 12 and 15 years, respectively, involved in
        
        the work with the action programme.
        
        - The parents'' attitude to the placing in foster-care.
        
        - Assessment of the measures taken in relation to the problems
        
        which are to be solved.
      
            
        2. The following information is included from the questionnaire completed by the places of accommodation:
        
        - Type of accommodation (institution, family-care,
        
        socio-educational commune), primary target group (age, types of
        
        problems) and geographial location (municipality, county).
        
        - Sex and age of the children.
        
        - Section of the Act used when placing the child in foster-care.
        
        - Stated reasons for placing in foster-care.
        
        - Assessment of the physical/mental condition of the child at the
        
        time of placing in foster-care.
        
        - Visitation process.
        
        - Knowledge of a municipal action programme: is it available? Has
        
        it been handed out? Have parts of it been handed out?
        
        - Assessment of information from the municipality regarding basis
        
        for and purpose of the placing in foster-care and regarding the
        
        child and the child''s family.
        
        - Assessment of the measures taken in relation to the problems
        
        which are to be solved.
        
        - Contact to the municipality during the foster-care period.
        
        - Contact to the parents during the foster-care period.
        
        - After-care measures.
      
            
        3. The following information is included from the questionnaire completed by the municipality:
        
        - Municipality number and name.
        
        - Sex and age of the children.
        
        - Section of the Act used when placing the child in foster-care.
        
        - Earlier periods of foster-care of the children.
        
        - Other measures taken in connection with the child.
        
        - Practice of the municipality concerning a number of aspects
        
        in connection with the placing of children outside the home
description: Undersøgelsen har til formål at undersøge forholdene for børn, før, under og efter en anbringelse.
description: The study aims to examine the situation of children before, during and after placement.