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General objective

• To offer special educational guidance and support to  local authorities in charge of the education in municipalities and to county administrations in Norway.
• To ensure that children, young people and adults with major and special educational needs are secured well-advised educational and developmental provisions.
• To offer a broad spectrum of services.

Statped consists of

• 12 resource centres owned by the State, carrying out most of the service production within the enterprise.
• 2 units for special education where Statped buys services, offering services according to contracts between each unit and the State.

Statped is managed by

• The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, which is the executive agency for the Ministry of Education and Research.