the three-year girl has died under suspicious circumstances in her parents ‚ care, the parents and the people suspected of aggravated involuntary manslaughter and a breach of griftefriden. The incident is disturbing, but it is, unfortunately, not unique.

for a Bris, Children’s rights in society, was founded nearly 50 years ago, and after that, another three-year girl has died from the injuries she received from the abuse her father subjected her to. In retrospect, it turned out that many of the known into the young woman’s vulnerability, but it is not enough to act to protect her. The breeze started out as a response to the event, and the community agreed that they had had enough, something like that should never be allowed to happen again. We don’t know all the facts about the treåringens died in Norrköping, sweden, but after 50 years, we can say that the child still has some major shortcomings.

this is The result of a long-term struggle, and it is a very important milestone in the efforts to strengthen the child’s human rights. The crc is a framework that provides new opportunities for the community to show that it is serious about protecting the interests of children and satisfy the needs of all of their rights. However, where the crc is the only signalpolitik, or it meant something in real life, even in the most difficult cases, in which the rights of the child goes to the counter to adults ‚ points of view?

Despite the fact that it’s been almost 5 years since the public inquiry, the government has not yet moved forward with the proposal.

in the Case of the three-year girl in Norrköping, sweden, is an absolute tragedy. Several media outlets have reported, was born the child of abstinence, on the basis of the mother’s substance abuse, both of his parents were involved in problems with substance abuse and mental health issues. The child, were recovered already in the hospital only a few days old. The girl had never lived with his parents, but when she was 2.5 in the year, the parents, the process of getting her back. At the end, she was found dead in his mother’s apartment.

How did it get this way? This case demonstrates the clear structural weaknesses in the child protection system, which is in the long-term laid – gaps, which urgently need to be addressed. The breeze looks to be three issues, in particular, needs to be addressed.

1 lvu in conformity with the convention? the Law on care of young persons (lvu) to protect children who cannot live at home, and that, therefore, the need of social support. Treåringen in Norrköping, sweden was allowed to grow up to be a part of a new family. The child had only just met her biological mother for the monitoring, every three weeks for 90 minutes at a time. According to the lvu, and precedent-setting decisions, the courts did not take a position on whether the child is able to bring hurt by the separation from the family home in the assessment of continuing health care.

This is a problem from a child’s perspective. Business continuity and how they relate to safeguarding adults is essential for children’s development. Breeze argues that the decisions do not take into consideration the child’s needs in the event of a long-term position might lead to unreasonable consequences for the child. Moreover, the current design of the lvu and the social security act in parallel on vårdnadsöverflyttning, flyttningsförbud and lvu for the children difficult. All of the decisions about the child’s life must be guided by the best interests of the child, that is to say, the interest of the child, the situation and the needs of the here and now. Such a procedure is not only a necessity, it is also quite possible.

In Norway, the crc has been the law since 2003, where these processes are different than in the uk. According to the Norwegian barnevernloven to tvångsvården continue if the child is so connected to the people and to the environment in which it lived, that it can lead to serious problems, if the child is to be moved.

It formed a government commission in the year 2015 to submit proposals on the changes to the lvu on the basis of a clearer and more true picture of the situation. The study suggested, for example, that the principle of the best interests of the child should be able to be a decisive factor in decisions about the care of a foster family shall be terminated, or is not, subject to certain conditions, if the child rooted in the family home. The assessment of whether the care is to cease to be, in other words, to be done in a two-step process. First, in relation to the original reason for the seizure; and, in a second step, if it is to the best interest of the child to health care will cease. However, despite the fact that it’s been almost 5 years since the public inquiry, the government has not yet moved forward with the proposal, in relation to the child, who is a long-term position.

2. What are the requirements of the courts in the trials of the lvu?

In the case of the treåringen in Norrköping, where the court of appeal, the panel had concluded that the lvu-the care of the child was able to terminate in accordance with their wishes. How the court of appeal reasoned that this was the child’s best interest, it is not clear from the judgment.

by contrast, was made strong to receive to the baby to its biological parents, especially with regard to the social services committee had been a little bit of insight into how the parents might be able to take care of her. A degree of transparency is necessary in order to properly assess the föräldraförmågan.

We can never know whether a specific expertise on children in the courts has led to the fact that the assessment in this case would have been different.“ But we all know that Sweden is the only country in the Nordic region, which is lacking in a particular expertise in the legal court. In denmark and Finland, the barnsakkunniga, which are usually clinical psychologists or senior social workers. Child welfare services and the individual best interests of the child is not a matter of asking the adults in the various views to each other. The principle of the best interests of the child come from the crc, and is one of them. The method also includes the expertise of a child and the child’s point of view is the basis for decision-making.

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What is the view of the child in the trials of the lvu? To consider the child as the parent’s property is an out-of-date approach, which is not in conformity with the convention. This means that there is a legal process that is to a large extent, looking at what the parents are advised on the improvement of the conditions fails to take into account the child’s own rights. The most important thing in the assessment, according to the lvu must be in the best interests of the child in the here and now.

In Sweden, we have agreed that every child has the right to live one’s life without the adult violence. We must never forget that the change, in order to strengthen the rights of the child is possible. Now it is in much of a hurry.

Lvu may be changed in accordance with the proposals put forward by the commission of inquiry in 2015. relating to the long-term, children placed in care. The principle of the best interests of the child shall be prime consideration in the assessment of long-term investments.

It is similar to the other nordic countries, the introduction of independent expertise in the field of children in the justice’s court.

There is a change in attitude of the public. on the way we look at children, where we recognize and act on the basis that each child is an individual with their own rights.

in Order to protect the children ran to the Breeze of the political effects of the introduction of the first anti-spanking law. The Anti-spanking law in 1979, despite the fact that the vast majority of people in sweden at the time took the view that the issue of violence against children in the uppfostringssyfte was necessary. The law is important for a number of reasons.

in Addition to the protection the laws of a normative power to change our ideas about what is right and wrong. A few decades after the antiagalagen have come to fruition had the public opinion shifted. In Sweden, we have agreed that every child has the right to live one’s life without the adult violence.

in Order to get to the fundamental changes must also be slightly changed in the future. Now is the time to prove me right.
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