“Children pressure out of school to travel to Sweden” – Expressen

An ill-treatment of EU migrants likely to contribute to that their children torn from school in their home countries when their parents come to Sweden to beg.

Sweden should help to secure their schooling in their home countries, writes Government investigators Martin Valfridsson and Richard Klefors from orgnisationen Heart to Heart in Dagens Nyheter today.

The two experts, Richard Klerfors on the Christian aid organization Heart to Heart, and Martin Valfridsson, national coordinator for work with vulnerable EEA citizens, writes Richard Klefors during a stay in Romania recently met a contrite principal who told me that many children taken out of school to accompany their parents to beg in Sweden.

Meanwhile, in Sweden we have in the spring seen a debate about all children’s right to attend school – even children into begging Eu migrants who are staying temporarily in Sweden.

Questioning the right to schooling in Sweden

The two authors question the right of children to schooling in Sweden about the same time means that they can not be offered acceptable way of life and places.

– It would not in most cases be better for kids stay in school in their home countries? Swedish society, the public and civil, can and should work to ensure that all children can go to school – but that does not automatically mean that they should do it in Sweden, they write in DN

The authors believe that it is only in exceptional cases may be best for the children to go to school in Sweden, as the children who stayed a long time in Sweden or born here.

– No child should be thrown into the schools in an unknown environment in a language one does not know without a previous investigation.

compulsory schooling exists in both Romania and Bulgaria have also taken into account.

Listen to employees

In order to determine children’s best interests, the authorities in Sweden listen to employees in the social services, schools and others working with children, especially in their home countries, but also in Sweden, rather than the lawyers today invokes the CRC.

The fact that the children in these countries often leave a home – even if it’s a bad one at that – should also be taken in mind, if the alternative is an illegal housing situation in Sweden.

The authors also believe that there must be increased cooperation with the EU migrants’ home countries to resolve their situation.

– The goal of the dialogue is to contribute to the consideration of when individual cases are consistent with the child’s best interests to begin schooling in Sweden and when it actually is not, they write .