Press release No. 350 of 21 July 2021
- In the corona year of 2020, authorities registered roughly 5,000 more cases than in 2019
- One in three children was younger than 5 years
- Psychological abuse rose particularly strongly (+17%)
- Fewer notifications from schools (-1.5%), more from the population (+21%)
WIESBADEN – In 2020, the youth welfare offices in Germany recognised an endangerment of the best interests of a child or young person in almost 60,600 cases. That was an increase of roughly 5,000 cases, or 9%, compared with 2019. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that child endangerment cases thus reached the highest level in the corona year of 2020 since the statistics were introduced in 2012. The number of child endangerment cases had markedly increased already in the preceding two years, that is, by 10% each.
