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Swiss federal authorities

879901 Residential homes for children and young people

Information: This code has a codification rule

This type includes:

  • residential and social assistance activities provided on a round-the-clock basis to special categories of persons, but where medical treatment or education are not essential elements:
  • orphanages
  • children’s boarding homes and hostels

This type also includes:

  • activities of:
  • halfway group houses for groups of persons with social or personal problems
  • halfway houses for delinquents and offenders
  • juvenile correction homes

This type excludes:

  • student residences, see 559000

  • child day-care activities, see 889100

  • adoption service activities, see 889909

There is a distinction between nursing, which focuses on personal care and physical assistance (sections 86 and 87) and social support, which focuses on emotional, social, and organizational help (section 88)