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Q - Human Health and Social Work Activities

CAEN Code 8790: Other residential care activities

Includes

This class includes the provision of residential and personal care services for individuals, excluding the elderly and disabled, who are unable or unwilling to care for themselves independently. This class includes: - activities provided on a 24-hour basis to offer social assistance to children and special categories of individuals with limited self-care abilities, where medical treatment or education are not primary elements:

  • orphanages
  • children's boarding homes and hostels
  • temporary homeless shelters
  • institutions that take care of unmarried mothers and their children The activities may be carried out by government offices or private organisations

This class also includes:

  • activities of:
    • halfway group homes for persons with social or personal problems
    • halfway homes for delinquents and offenders
    • juvenile correction homes

This class excludes:

  • funding and administration of compulsory social security programmes, see CAEN 8430
  • activities of nursing care facilities, see CAEN 8710
  • Residential care activities for the elderly or disabled, see here. CAEN 8730
  • adoption activities, see CAEN 8899
  • short-term shelter activities for disaster victims, see CAEN 8899