Child and youth welfare facilities Expansion of nonresidential care is making an impact There were also major differences in the number of cases in non-residential care. What is particularly noticeable is that Vienna, which is in first place when it comes to full residential care, is in second last place with 19.1% for nonresidential care or parental support. Monocausal interpretation of this data does not do justice to the complexity of the operating environment in which child and youth welfare is locally active, and should therefore be avoided. It can, however, be seen from the statistics, that the range of available nonresidential care forms evidently has an effect on the amount of residential care. Children and adolescents under parental support programmes per 1,000 inhabitants under 18 years in 2017 and 2018 Source: Statistik Austria, child and youth welfare statistics The picture is similar if the ratio between these two types of support is compared with each other. In Vienna, the share of full residential care is 39.29% and the share of non-residential care/parental support programmes is 60.71%. By comparison, in Burgenland 19.15% of support forms are residential care, 80.85% are non-residential. Child and youth welfare statistics alone do not answer the question as to how high the compensatory effects between non-residential child and your welfare 69