Published : 29-05-2022
AGPS issued a new report about compulsory childcare in Sweden to raise awareness about the tragedy of migrant families whose children were taken away from them by force under the Swedish Care of Young Persons Act known as LVU.
The first chapter of the 40-page report gives an overview of children’s rights, particularly Muslim children, under the Swedish law. The second chapter underscores the context, mechanisms, and legal procedures of compulsory healthcare.
The report also sheds the light on the fate of the child who is either given to a host family, a residential care accommodation (known as HVB), or a house for young adults (Sis-hem).
The fourth chapter discloses some of the legal violations by Swedish authorities and judiciary, giving as a reference testimonies by two Palestinian families from Syria whose children have been the victims of compulsory child care.
The report concludes by raising the following questions: How can these laws be changed? Is it possible to have these children rather hosted by migrant families?
A decision to take a child away from their families, according to the Swedish Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act, LVU, must always be based on a significant risk of harm to the child’s health or development. It can either be the situation in the family home or the child’s or young person’s own behaviour that may be deemed harmful or dangerous. Violence or some other form of abuse by the family is one example, another that the child exposes itself to danger or commits crimes. A prerequisite is that it can be assumed – or that the social services know – that the parents and the child don’t agree to the care needed.
In February this year, Palestinian refugee Alyaa Darwish, the grandmother of four girls and a boy who “have been taken away from their family”, said her grandchildren were being subjected to “persecution, ill-treatment, repression, and sexual harassment by their host families in Sweden”.
Alyaa said the Swedish Social Services Administration took away her grandchildren some four years ago and without prior notice on claims of family problems and neglect, which has been denied by Alyaa. She confirmed that her grandchildren had an ordinary and stable life with their families.
AGPS issued a new report about compulsory childcare in Sweden to raise awareness about the tragedy of migrant families whose children were taken away from them by force under the Swedish Care of Young Persons Act known as LVU.
The first chapter of the 40-page report gives an overview of children’s rights, particularly Muslim children, under the Swedish law. The second chapter underscores the context, mechanisms, and legal procedures of compulsory healthcare.
The report also sheds the light on the fate of the child who is either given to a host family, a residential care accommodation (known as HVB), or a house for young adults (Sis-hem).
The fourth chapter discloses some of the legal violations by Swedish authorities and judiciary, giving as a reference testimonies by two Palestinian families from Syria whose children have been the victims of compulsory child care.
The report concludes by raising the following questions: How can these laws be changed? Is it possible to have these children rather hosted by migrant families?
A decision to take a child away from their families, according to the Swedish Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act, LVU, must always be based on a significant risk of harm to the child’s health or development. It can either be the situation in the family home or the child’s or young person’s own behaviour that may be deemed harmful or dangerous. Violence or some other form of abuse by the family is one example, another that the child exposes itself to danger or commits crimes. A prerequisite is that it can be assumed – or that the social services know – that the parents and the child don’t agree to the care needed.
In February this year, Palestinian refugee Alyaa Darwish, the grandmother of four girls and a boy who “have been taken away from their family”, said her grandchildren were being subjected to “persecution, ill-treatment, repression, and sexual harassment by their host families in Sweden”.
Alyaa said the Swedish Social Services Administration took away her grandchildren some four years ago and without prior notice on claims of family problems and neglect, which has been denied by Alyaa. She confirmed that her grandchildren had an ordinary and stable life with their families.
