1) Parent can no longer ship their difficult teenager to a boarding school for cheap price. Too many teenagers who didn't belong in a boarding school has been shipped off during the last 5-10 years.
Now it will cost them. 75,000 DKK is a lot in a society where you paid 50 percent in taxes.
2)
Placements outside home are down 20 percent since our economical crisis did start. The authorities has been forced to rethink treatment options and not just trying to send a case over to another desk. No increase in youth crime has been measured due to this reorganization of our child welfare systems, so I guess they already had the ressources and tools to help kids locally but did choose not to when they could afford it.
The private firms running group homes and boarding schools are crying. They have hired "experts" speaking their case. They have hired former students to tell how fine their year at the boarding school was.
Denmark has not been a boarding school country like England. We have always been focusing on local solutions and our local community just to help eachother out. We did tend to shield ourselves against outsiders. A lot of smart people are telling us to be more open and ship our children away and abroad to learn about the world, so the number of kids in boarding school has been more than doubled since year 2000. Last year about 45,000 teens attended a boarding school. Some 15-20 did not make the entire year, because they were not made out to live at a boarding school and suffered an emotional defeat by leaving the school early, so it is about time that this traffic was stopped.
It is good news and other countries can learn from us.
