Now move children placed by the publicized now “home” to Gothenburg.
– We act immediately, says Monica Stenum, Head of unit for unaccompanied children and young people in the District Centre.
Gothenburg is one of the municipalities that have had a contract with the Sörmland criticized the company in which a female boss now suspected of sexual exploitation. But now the contracts terminated and after the information about the suspected sexual offense was published in Eskilstuna Courier municipality has decided that some of the children placed by the company will be moved back to Gothenburg – already on Friday.
– I got a call in the afternoon, and then they said that the boys would be moved by tomorrow (Friday), says Alf Svensson, former county politicians in Sörmland and trustee for two of the boys placed in foster homes in the municipality of Gothenburg through the company.
– They had decided it without consulting me. As a trustee, I am their guardian, he said.
Alf Svensson says that the boys, who are 15 years of age, thrive in the family where they have been placed and that they do not want to move.
– Both boys want to stay. They have a good family that cares for them, he said.
According to Svensson children go to school and good friends. Furthermore playing football one of them and has been youth. Now the pressure up out of their lives – even though there is no other family waiting for them.
– They have no family to put them in, so they will be placed in a CODM or similar until they find a family for them, he said.
Alf Svensson emphasizes that boys never even met the woman suspected of sex crimes alone.
Kerstin Almgren, head of the family unit in one of the districts in Gothenburg, says that on Thursday sent out a question to all family units in Gothenburg to find out which neighborhoods that have placed children through the Sörmland company.
– There is no one today who has an overall control it. We now want to make a statement, she said.
She says that there are ten districts in Gothenburg and that each neighborhood is like a small commune of about 50 000 inhabitants. And it is every child’s social worker that determine how and where the child is placed.
Kerstin Almgren also believes that the information that has now been reported in Eskilstuna Courier worry every single social worker who placed the children.
How many children do you have invested?
– I do not have the exact number right now, but these are about 1 000 unaccompanied refugee children who have been placed by the city of Gothenburg in various places in Sweden, she says.
From the District Centre has a total of a few hundred children placed. About ten of them are investments through Sörmlandsleden company.
– This applies to foster investments, says Monica Stenum.
She reacted strongly to the data Eskilstuna Courier published on Thursday.
– It is extremely serious tasks. It’s clear that I’m not the only one who reacts strongly to it. We are responsible of course for these children and their protection. It is incredibly important position for us to find out if it is so that any child that we are responsible for, or risked being abused.
During the day the decision was taken that the children placed through the company should home to Gothenburg.
– We act directly. They will get it good, says Monica Stenum.
The family home that has been caring for the children, Alf Svensson good man suggested that they can continue that family but through the Gothenburg municipality so that the children do not have to move. But it is not, according to Monica Stenum.
– Based on the information that abound now, we make the assessment that these children need to be protected also from the area. We know so little about how the contacts were looked after, who met whom and which ensures we cover in the first place.
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