14 year old Tahmina has been offered money by aliens on several occasions. The requirement – that she move to a foster home. Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf
Uppsala Municipality reached by reports of children being offered money to replace the family home. Individual young people to have made contact with the social worker and said that they want to change accommodation when they have been offered better terms.
– We have heard rumors that this occurs and that is why we need to work on quality assurance, says Ingrid Burman (V), the social welfare committee chairman.
SvD have met 14-year-old girl Tahmina in Uppsala, she talks about how she unexpectedly been approached by foreign adults who offered her money. Money has always been tied to one condition – that she move to a foster home. This has happened to her on several occasions, a stranger offers up to 3000 crowns a month and says she can send money to their family back home.
Tahmina came alone to Sweden for a little more than a year ago. The family remains in the home country. Today she lives in a HVB homes, home care and housing, outside Uppsala, where she thrives.
Recently, she visited Migration Board in a case. There came a woman unknown to her back and started talking about Tahmina could replace the home if she wanted to.
– I did not know her, she asked me if I would think it was fun to live with a family from the same country I. She said I could talk to the family she knew, and that I could get money from them if I moved there, says Tahmina.
The adults made contact with her have come from different varieties.
– one person was from Solna, another person lived in Borlänge. They say they come here sometimes and meet their families when they ask me, says Tahmina.
As more unaccompanied children need a safe place to live in Sweden also starting to see more people the opportunity to earn money to become a foster family for the children.
A family can now get up to 19 000 per month per child. As SvD’s audit revealed that it has among other things led to the deeply indebted people had upwards of five refugee children in the same unresolved children placed with them.
According to a well-versed source that has close contact with several unaccompanied young and who wishes to remain anonymous, so have several unaccompanied children in Uppsala has been visited by people who attract them with money. The requirement is that the children will leave their current accommodation and instead become foster children.
it’s terrible, there should be quality in the care of children, then it should not be the financial interests that control.
Many children have told me that they were promised about 3 000 per month if they choose to move to a foster home.
– this is a bit tricky, the child sees the money and the family sees the money to have children living with them. But the children are being cheated, even if the kids would not enjoy living in the family home so they feel compelled to be there because they get money they can not get anywhere else, says the man.
Tahmina, 14, likes where she lives today and wish to study economics when she gets older . Photo: Linus Sundahl-Djerf
He describes how the children told about the phenomenon known to have been on something they do not really want to talk about.
– they ask if they can move, they thrive where they live but do not know if they are one hundred percent trust the people who ask. They are affected by it, they become uncertain and thoughtful about what is happening.
these new family homes can say openly that they promise to help the children to send money to their families in their home country. What child wants to say no to that?
What is the kind of families the children recruited to?
– The may be people who already have foster children, but who wants to recruit children to someone else they know. Most often, the families that do not have a job that sees an opportunity to gain income. The child will receive 3 000 and the family gets the remaining.
– These new family homes can say openly that they promise to help the children to send money to their families back home. What child wants to say no to that?
Uppsala now works with an agreement monitoring where it visits places, including the family home, in order to ensure quality.
– this is terrible, there should be quality in the care of children, then it should not be the financial interests that control, says says social Board Chairman Ingrid Burman (V).
– it’s not the children who to choose where they will be placed, but it is our social secretary. The ambition is that we should offer a good time and good quality conditions and not gadgets and money. This is one of the elements we need to lift up our work.
Off Uppsala around 1100 refugee children that are between 600-700 placed by other municipalities, which makes it difficult to reach all young people, says Ingrid Burman.
trustee and Uppsala Counsel Stephen Zebrowski told SvD that he was well aware that young people are lured with money to move.
a good man I know had a youth who was offered 5000 crowns behind his back if he moved.
– a good man I know had a youth who was offered 5000 crowns behind his back if he moved, says Stefan Zebrowski.
for Tahmina continue her second year in Sweden on HVB- home. She started school and already has plans for the future.
– I would probably study economics when I get older, she says.
Footnote: Tahmina’s really something else.
What is it?
SvD have reviewed the situation of children in Sweden who fall under the responsibility of society, the so-called family .
Children has placed of criminals, in debt and in people who lack the ability to care. The review also shows that the private company that conveys families deficiencies in their investigations.
The review is also clear that social services are breaking the law; the child’s personal file may be missing and you do not know how the child is feeling or what will happen in the future because there is no treatment and implementation plans. In some cases, it takes also up to two years before the social encounter the child to see how it feels in the family home.
After the big Neglect Survey 2011, asked the government to apologize to all children previously abused the responsibility of society. Politicians promised it would never happen again.
Göran Johansson led the investigation told SvD that neglect is still there and can be even worse when there are so many children who are in need community support.
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