Clearing house

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A clearing house is generally a facility for the coordination and arbitration between various institutions, carriers and offers or, in the financial sector, an institution that carries out the clearing . Well-known examples of clearing houses are:

In social work , on the other hand , the term clearing house or clearing house refers to temporary accommodation of clients with the aim of evaluating and referring them, e.g. B.

  • Clearing house in youth welfare , closed temporary accommodation for young people with massive dissocial and delinquent behavior based on § 1631b BGB ;
  • Clearing house for acutely homeless families, single parents or single persons to develop a housing perspective and to find a place to live.


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