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Children in out-of-home care

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2023

Last updated: 01 Oct 2024, 11:32 SGT

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)

Table of all children in out-of-home care as of 31 December of the specified year, regardless of the year the child’s case was opened.

Data explorer

Childreninoutofhomecare.csv (33 rows, 917 B)

Year PlacementType Total
Text
(Null)0.0%
2013, FosterCare, 309
2013, KinshipCare, 207
2013, ResidentialCare, 749
2014, FosterCare, 335
2014, KinshipCare, 221
2014, ResidentialCare, 691
2015, FosterCare, 362
2015, KinshipCare, 192
2015, ResidentialCare, 680
2016, FosterCare, 430

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Year PlacementType TotalYear_PlacementType_TotalText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b85f15701092578c2aa0ae8cd263b210"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Social and Family Development. (2024). Children in out-of-home care (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 3, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b85f15701092578c2aa0ae8cd263b210/view

About this dataset

Contact

joel_ong@msf.gov.sgng_xi_hui@msf.gov.sgcloe_everitt@msf.gov.sgpoh_si_jia@msf.gov.sg

Created on

01 Oct 2024

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)