The Division carries out monitoring visits to public and private institutions for children, such as: - Social care institutions and privately run accommodation facilities for children placed in residential care - Foster families - Schools, including private schools - Asylum centres - Hospital wards and psychiatric wards for children - Day-care facilities The Division especially processes specific cases involving: - Support measures for children and juveniles - Social services for children - Family law (visitation rights etc., child support and adoptions) - Primary and lower secondary schools, continuation schools and private schools - Institutions for children - Other cases with a particular bearing on children’s rights