Social work activities without accommodation

NACE 88

Current registrations 5,536

Starters, 12 months 3275.9 per 100 · Belgium 8.9

Bankruptcies, 12 months 40.7 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2

Employment (FTE) 111,8321,113 employers · latest accounts

Median age 12.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

E-invoicing via Peppol 64.7%3,582 of 5,536 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Activities

NACE division 88 · 15 activities

Activity	Registrations	Starters, 12 months	Bankruptcies, 12 months	FTE
Other social work without accommodation88999	2,184	113	1	26,220
Day nurseries and crèches88911	1,555	52	2	11,307
Social work activities without accommodation88101	571	83	0	34,850
Social work activities without accommodation88993	248	1	0	29,446
Social work activities without accommodation88994	233	14	1	1,210
Social work activities without accommodation88992	191	6	0	2,674
Social work activities without accommodation88919	157	17	0	750
Social work activities without accommodation88109	137	29	0	1,370
Social work activities without accommodation88912	89	5	0	1,661
Social work activities without accommodation88106	74	1	0	541
Social work activities without accommodation88105	45	2	0	637
Social work activities without accommodation88991	37	1	0	264

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Activity	Registrations	Starters, 12 months	FTE
Social work activities without accommodation88104	36	1	272
Social work activities without accommodation88102	33	2	151
Social work activities without accommodation88103	14	0	480

Filed accounts

NACE division 88 · financial year 2025 · 2,114 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

50.0%

Belgium 46.1%

Median net result

€16,224

Belgium €16,468

Median equity

€263,788

Belgium €98,204

Loss-making

28.3%

Belgium 26.7%

Negative equity

7.3%

Belgium 12.4%

Median return on equity

6.0%

Belgium 15.9%

Median liquidity

1.99

Belgium 1.66

Filed late

25.6%

financial year 2024, 1,854 filings · Belgium 38.5%

Missing or 90 days late

6.2%

of 2,280 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.5%

Per financial year	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Median solvency	-	-	51.1%	51.0%	46.8%	46.4%	48.3%	48.8%
Median net result	-	-	€14,581	€12,243	€4,283	€10,889	€18,368	€14,908
Filed late	27.7%	47.2%	28.0%	28.9%	27.7%	27.8%	25.6%	-

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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 88

1,076 employers

Median

€60,000

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€48,200 to €72,700

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

58 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€68,100	€56,800 to €80,500	205
10 to 49 FTE	€62,000	€51,700 to €72,300	563
50 to 249 FTE	€50,400	€38,400 to €68,800	218
250 FTE or more	€43,300	€36,300 to €55,500	90

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered

0.20% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%

Bankruptcies per year in division 88

Per year	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Bankruptcies	19	28	17	38	48	22	28	38	45	41	44	33
Jobs lost	147	107	52	138	89	76	223	308	209	265	241	98

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Recent bankruptcies

Date	Company
13-10-2026	BABY LOUISE BE 0842.369.675
02-09-2026	Baby-lounge BE 0895.482.125
10-06-2026	Dogan, Rabia BE 0785.316.552 · sole trader · Hasselt
13-11-2025	Play it Loud BE 0726.621.951
06-08-2025	Boone, Carine BE 0867.182.473 · sole trader · Knokke-Heist
15-10-2024	STEPPING STONES BE 0627.655.029
16-08-2023	de Sousa Van Meensel, Ana BE 0740.861.848 · sole trader · Lier
15-02-2023	Action on Addiction BE 0533.997.371

Every bankruptcy in division 88, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 4,201 of 5,536 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat

Flanders 1,970 · 46.9%
Wallonia 1,316 · 31.3%
Brussels 891 · 21.2%
Abroad 24 · 0.6%

West Flanders WVL 353

East Flanders OVL 401

Antwerp ANT 670

Flemish Brabant VLB 313

Limburg LIM 233

Brussels BRU 891

Hainaut HAI 403

Walloon Brabant WBR 190

Namur NAM 202

Liège LIE 418

Luxembourg LUX 103

fewer moremax 891

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Largest employers

NACE division 88 · staff from the latest accounts

1 FamiliehulpSaint-Josse-ten-Noode 9,919 FTEfinancial year 2025
2 i-mensGhent 7,158 FTEfinancial year 2025
3 Helan HuishoudhulpAntwerp 2,809 FTEfinancial year 2025
4 PLUS HOME SERVICESAntwerp 2,610 FTEfinancial year 2025
5 BEWELDiepenbeek 2,016 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 1,023 companies

331 Flemish welfare and health sector 299
332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 113
327.01 Sheltered and social workshops 85
329.01 Socio-cultural sector 82
319.01 Educational and residential institutions 81
319.02 Educational and residential institutions 66
329.02 Socio-cultural sector 66
330 Health institutions and services 42

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337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 38
200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 36
318.01 Family and elderly care services 25
327.03 Sheltered and social workshops 25
327 Sheltered and social workshops 23
319 Educational and residential institutions 22
329 Socio-cultural sector 20
322.01 Approved companies for local work and services 19
318 Family and elderly care services 15
100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 14
318.02 Family and elderly care services 14
302 Hotels and catering 8

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

1 of the 3,822 companies in NACE division 88 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (1). Together they employ 255 of the division's 111,832 FTE: 0.2%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €11.35bn awarded 1,323 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies aan diensten voor gezinszorg en diensten voor logistieke hulp
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €857.9m paid 833 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
Federal transfers 158.5m amount as published 83 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Ondersteuning aan de bijdrage van de organisaties van de civiele maatschappij en institutionele actoren in de realisatie van de doelen van de gemeenschappelijke strategische kaders (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.10 van de wetsbepalingen)
EU budget €125.3m attributed share 21 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Humanitarian Aid
EU research €6.0m EU contribution 17 recipients · 2009 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Social work without accommodation

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 6.0% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 7.3% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Liquidity of 1.99 is above Belgium's 1.66.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 0.0% at under 10 FTE, 0.0% at 10 to 49 FTE, 0.0% at 50 to 249 FTE and 0.0% at 250 FTE or more.

Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 21.3% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 12.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 24.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 25.6% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.5% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 24,511 of the 111,832 FTE: 21.9%.

Direction. Median solvency fell from 51.1% in financial year 2020 to 48.8% in financial year 2025. In 2025, Statbel counted 44 bankruptcies and 241 jobs lost, against 22 bankruptcies in 2020.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 14-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 88 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,430 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,464 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.