Children in Residential Care - a Segregated Group in Education, 1994-95

The purpose of the project was to map elementary education of children and young people living in county child welfare institutions. The reason is that the county, not the primary municipality is responsible for primary schooling for children living in institutions. The project was initiated by the child welfare institutions' cooperation forum. The aim was to identify where students got their education, organization of teaching, expert knowledge, individual decisions, individual learning plans, cooperation between school / institution, quality of services and school and institution employees' ratings of the offer. Questionnaires were answered by staff of the institution, elementary school teacher, executive officer of the municipality and officer in the counties education agencies. Some interviews have also been conducted, but they are not suitable for use by others.

The study contains four data sets.