Norwegian Board of Health Supervision to review child welfare cases

Minister of Children and Equality Solveig Horne ( Progress Party )Minister of Children and Equality Solveig Horne ( Progress Party ). / Foto: Ilja C. Hendel

In order to gain more knowledge of how child welfare cases are handled, the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision has now been given the task of reviewing a large number of urgent child welfare cases and cases involving children being taken into care.

 

Review of the Child Welfare Services

Minister of Children and Equality Solveig Horne announced a review of individual child welfare cases at a conference on trust and legal safeguards in the child welfare system in December last year.
‘We know that the Child Welfare Services do a lot of very good work, but they are often criticised, either for intervening too early or for intervening in the wrong way, or because they become involved too late. We want to get a picture of how the system works, how compulsory care orders are handled and of what happens in cases where the system fails,’ Ms Horne said.
The review will involve an examination of the way cases are handled by the Child Welfare Services, the role played by child welfare experts and the way cases are dealt with by the county social welfare boards.

Review of the Child Welfare Services

Minister of Children and Equality Solveig Horne announced a review of individual child welfare cases at a conference on trust and legal safeguards in the child welfare system in December last year.
‘We know that the Child Welfare Services do a lot of very good work, but they are often criticised, either for intervening too early or for intervening in the wrong way, or because they become involved too late. We want to get a picture of how the system works, how compulsory care orders are handled and of what happens in cases where the system fails,’ Ms Horne said.
The review will involve an examination of the way cases are handled by the Child Welfare Services, the role played by child welfare experts and the way cases are dealt with by the county social welfare boards.

A variety of cases

The number of child welfare cases to be reviewed must be high enough to cover all parts of the country, both large and small municipalities, and cases involving children of all ages.
‘Taken together, the results gained from examining individual cases can give us information about which aspects of the system may be failing and why. The review will provide valuable knowledge that we can use to further develop the Child Welfare Services,’ Ms Horne said.

 

Source: government.no / Norway Today