New sjokkfunn is tabloid stigmatization and infringement

the Newspaper has corrected attention to conditions in the Norwegian child welfare institutions, and through the last year they revealed improper care by Vestlundveien youth center in Bergen.

The conditions that were uncovered was extremely serious. In brief, this was an institution that did not take their care responsibilities, and among other things failed to stop the youth from doing acts that hurt them. Why it was so is not easy to understand, but part of the explanation may be the fear of that clear boundaries would escalate the conflict, and that physical intervention could be retraumatiserende.

the Failure is in the care was thorough, and the County governor of Hordaland went out and apologized, and described the private supervision at the institution as unjustifiable.

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connection with the government's own review of the barnevernsinstitusjonene, published in Dagbladet 8. February an article where they refer to the fylkesmennenes tilsynsrapporter. The newspaper summarizes the preliminary review with the headline "New sjokkfunn about child welfare institutions", and compares the findings with the very unsafe conditions that were uncovered by Vestlundveien. To reinforce the comparison, pairing the article with video and images from the case of Vestlundveien.

It is a tabloid newspaper its right to be tabloid in its expression, but this is uetterrettelig journalism that creates an impression of a child, totally without the ability to provide proper and necessary care to children and young people. One is left with an impression of a continuous public neglect.

Some of the conditions as the county governors describing is serious, but it must not be created a picture of 15 of the 29 institutions operate the way it was done by Vestlundveien.

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If I even should allow me to be a little tabloid, so I would say that this is stigmatization of children and young people who live in the institution, and a violation of all the employees who daily stands in the extremely demanding considerations when it comes to, among other things, the use of coercion.

having access to the legalised use of force, coercion and frihetsinnskrenking involve intensive reviews. In many situations, we can move in a legal, ethical and behandlingsmessig razor's edge, where one must do konsekvensvurderinger both in the short and long term. Although you have a law, it is not always a good idea.

For example, it is not always a good idea to prevent a youth to escape from the institution even if it is allowed, but then it will surely be both the law and wise (right) to get him or her back. When one moves on such a razor's edge, one will often be criticised - either for using too little force or too much force.

child welfare professionals (of youth who have been in child welfare institutions) wish that it used less coercion, but the compulsion is so many different measures. For example, there may be physical control in acute danger, body checks, searches of rooms or reversal by escapes.

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It rests a pronounced expectation on the employees in the barnevernsinstitusjonene to reduce the use of coercion. The way I see it, must not this be a general goal in itself. It must be worked to use the least possible coercion, and at the same time ensure the care and safety of children and young people. In some cases, it may be about more coercion, and in other cases less.

Child youth affairs set down an expert group in 2015 (which yours truly was a part of), and it was given the academic recommendations for the safeguarding of the safety and security of children and employees in child welfare institutions.

based on the code of practice developed Bufetat a four-day training program for all employees in the institutions. To the now has about. 1200 people completed the training. The program has a great deal of attention to preventing situations that could potentially escalate and end in acute danger with the subsequent use of physical force. There is also training in Rettighetsforskriften.

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This has among other things led to that East Region has had a decline in the use of force or coercion on the 20 per cent in the period 2017-2018. This is very much in the course of one year. Perhaps it is also the case that the type of restraint used is more appropriate cf. omsorgsansvaret.

More fylkesmenn have in their tilsynsrapporter noted the course importance. This is a success story from the state-run child welfare. I have been lucky and been working a lot with Bufetat, and it's done unbelievably well barnevernsfaglig work out in the institutions that are drowning in media unyanserte tabloidisering.

Dagbladet and other media the need to continue to look the agency is in the cards. They have an important social mission, and contributes among other things to the greater public interest around the state care. I pray nevertheless, the media will be more nuanced, and less tabloid in their presentation, so that neither the children and young people or employees are stigmatiserte, and so that there is created a distrust of the public care based on the tabloid expression. What I think is a responsibility that rests on you.

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