IVO warns: Children can suffer harm – Dagens Industri

IVO warns: Children can suffer harm

                  2015-08-20 22:51
             

In one year the number of HVB homes for unaccompanied refugee children increased rapidly, today there are 657 pieces, reports the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Inspectorate for Health Care (IVO) to ensure the quality of Lodging it difficult to cope with its task.

For private providers require a permit from the IVO to power homes, IVO will also visit businesses twice a year and then the children will have the opportunity to talk to the inspectors. But to catch it would have major consequences for the rest of supervision under the IVO. Now the alarm for the children to come to harm in the situation.

It is an exceptional situation currently. It will require solutions on many levels, I think. Municipalities have difficult problems to solve places, says IVO’s General Gunilla Hult Backlund to the newspaper.

In total there are 1470 HVB homes in Sweden.