The data here focus on the budget allocated to child protection.
In decentralised systems, both the national, regional and local budget finance child protection. In ensuring allocation of adequate resources, it is important to identify the proportion of national and other budgets allocated to children, both directly and indirectly.
Is there a specific budget item allocated to child protection in the annual state budget?
Note:No information available for Italy and Slovenia.
Source: FRA, 2014
In most Member States the budget allocated to child protection is not visible, and there is no specific budget line allocated to child protection expenditures.
Only eight Member States (Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden) allocate a specific budget item in their annual state budget to child protection.
In many Member States (for example in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Spain), there are multiple budget items covering different expenditures connected to child protection, instead of a specific budget chapter or item encompassing all connected expenses.
More often, the budget allocated to child protection is included in the overall expenditure for social policy and social welfare, as for example in Finland, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania. However, the type of expenditure related to child protection that are listed under social expenditures vary among Member States. They typically include child allowances or the budget allocated to the responsible child protection authority, but in principle do not cover expenditures that fall under the scope of other ministries.