Child and youth welfare facilities If it is no longer possible for a child to stay in the family setting because their well-being is at risk and the risk can only be averted through care outside of the family or the hitherto home environment, children and adolescents shall be given full residential care. According to the child and youth welfare statistics 2016, a total of 13,617 children and adolescents in Austria were not living with their families. This figure was 13,325 in 2018. A slight decrease in out-of-home care can thus be observed nationwide; however, the regional distribution is not even. Whereas seven Laender reported a fall in the number of supported children and adolescents in full residential care compared to 2017, the number of those in residential care increased in Lower Austria and Vienna. Expressed in cases per 1,000 minors, the number of minors living outside their families thus fluctuates nationwide between 12 in Vienna and 6 in Tyrol. 1.23% of children in Vienna were not living with their family in 2018. Carinthia, which was almost on the same level as Vienna in the previous year, was, however, able to reduce the out-of-home care share to 1.15% in 2018. Styria also succeeded in reducing its share considerably. Tyrol, which always had the lowest share, was able to further reduce the same. In 2018, just 0.6% of children in Tyrol were not growing up with their parents. Nationwide decrease in out-of-home care Children and adolescents in full residential care per 1,000 inhabitants under 18 years in 2017 and 2018 Source: Statistik Austria, child and youth welfare statistics 68