For

• Children, adolescents and young adults who are placed outside the family as part of child and youth welfare services,

and for

• mothers or fathers who are solely responsible for a child under the age of six

Health assistance - comparable to the benefits provided by statutory health insurance - applies if there is no other health insurance cover or if this does not fully cover the necessary needs. This means that if these children, adolescents or young adults fall ill, the responsible youth welfare office will ensure that the costs are covered

Children, adolescents and young adults who

• live in a foster family
• live in an inpatient child and youth welfare facility ("children's home")
• are in intensive individual social and educational care
• live as a mentally disabled child or adolescent in a foster family or in a residential child and youth welfare facility
• have been taken into care by the youth welfare office (also temporarily)
• are accommodated in a socio-pedagogically supported form of accommodation while participating in school or vocational training measures or during vocational integration

Mothers or fathers who

• are solely responsible for a child under the age of six and live with the child in a shared living arrangement for mothers/fathers/children and

children who

• live with their mother or father in shared accommodation for mothers/fathers and their children