Abstract
The central issue in this contribution is the analysis of indication-for-treatment statements (IFT's) in Dutch child and youth care. In the Netherlands under the new Youth Care Act, clients can only obtain intensive forms of child and youth care on the basis of a so-called written IFT-statement. Two studies are presented: one investigating the general quality of the IFT-statements, the other focusing in more detail on the quality of IFT-statements. The main question in both studies is to what extent IFT-statements meet the basic requirements that represent a well-founded and explicit decision, and by meeting that requirement, create a firm basis for treatment planning in residential and non-residential child and youth care services. The authors advocate to make IFT-statements more explicit and, by doing so, to contribute to an increased transparency of the decision-making process at the entrance into child and youth care services.
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