It contains basic information describing daily support centres, institutional foster care (care and education centres, regional care and therapeutic centres and pre-adoptive intervention centres) and family foster care (foster families and family children homes). It provides basic data on child care in nurseries and child clubs for children up to 3 years of age, along with basic information describing stationary social assistance facilities, selected data on benefi ciaries, benefi ts and benefi t amounts within community social welfare (monetary and non-monetary assistance), and family benefi ts. It also presents expenditures from the State budget and the local self-government budgets on social welfare and other tasks in the area of social policy.