Press release No. 308 of 16 August 2019
Youth welfare offices initiated measures to take roughly 52,600 minors into care in 2018
WIESBADEN – In 2018, the youth welfare offices in Germany took temporary measures for the protection of roughly 52,600 children and young people by taking them into care. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decline of nearly 8,800 cases compared with a year earlier (-14%). The main reason for this development was the marked decline in the number of minors who were taken into care because of their unaccompanied entry from abroad. The number of relevant cases decreased by 10,300 (-46%). At the same time, an increase was recorded in the number of protective measures taken for other reasons, especially because of physical and/or psychological child abuse. In 2018, the number of minors taken into care for such reasons increased by more than 1,200 on a year earlier (+25%).
Basic data and long time series are available in table Temporary protective measures for children and adolescents (22523-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
