Every six months, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) collects data on the use of youth care from all providers. These may be psychologists’ practices with one or several young clients or large mental health care institutions and certified institutions for youth protection and youth rehabilitation. What unites all of them is that they provide help and care to young people for whom the relevant local authority is responsible under the Youth Act.
Youth care includes youth support, youth protection and youth rehabilitation, which are provided under the responsibility of the local authority in accordance with the Youth Act (2014). Young people may receive several forms of youth care simultaneously. Back to article