Abstract
More than twenty years ago in Germany a new legal basis for child welfare came into force: Book Eight of the Social Code: Child and Youth Welfare (SGB VIII). It represents a different view towards the function of youth welfare: a change from a controlling and primarily intervening perspective towards a (primarily) empowering (and therefore preventing) perspective followed by the establishment of a variety of settings to improve parents responsibility and avoid the separation of children. Since then the act has been changed many times. Key issues were a new relationship between youth offi ce and family court in cases of interparental confl icts and child protection, the development of a day care system and improvements handling child protection in the youth of-
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