The purpose of this thesis has been to examine preventing child sexual abuse in four elementary schools in Stockholm, Sweden. The study is based on qualitative interviews with school counselors. The aim of this thesis was to find out how and if elementary schools in Sweden work with preventing child sexual abuse. The aim was also to examine how the school counselors reason about the schools efforts to prevent child sexual abuse. Their statements was analysed with Foucault’s theory about sexual history to get a deeper understanding for why people reason the way they do when it comes to issues like this. It was interesting to see if there was something in our history that made us think the way we do. An organization theory was used to help understand why the school works the way it does, but also to get a better understanding for the schools discretion. The main conclusions of this study have been that these four schools in Sweden mostly focus on children that already have been sexually abused rather than trying to prevent child sexual abuse from happening in the first place. It was also found that most of the school counselors were feeling that there lies a taboo around this kind of topic.

Detta är en kvalitativ intervjustudie med syfte att undersöka mellanstadielärarnas uppfattningar och erfarenheter kring att samtala med elever om missförhållanden hemma,samt deras upplevelser av hur samverkan med socialtjänsten fungerar. Data samlades in med semistrukturerade intervjuer och respondenterna bestod av sex lärare på mellanstadiet i från olika kommuner i Mellansverige. Resultatet visade att samtliga lärare anser att det är viktigt att diskutera missförhållanden med eleverna i skolan. Det som kan upplevas som hinder för att lyfta ämnet i skolan är att lärare saknar kunskap om ämnet, det saknas resurser och en del respondenter tyckte att det var ett svårt ämne att prata om. Resultatet visar även att skolans samverkan med socialtjänsten behöver utvecklas och förbättras. Studien visar att det behövs mer kunskap och resurser för att informera barn i årskurs 4-6 om missförhållanden i hemmet på ett mer strukturerat och funktionellt sätt. / This is a qualitative interview study with the aim of examining the middle school teachers' perceptions and experiences of talking to pupils about child maltreatment at home, as well as their experiences of how collaboration with the social services works. Data was collected with semi-structured interviews and the respondents consisted of six middle school teachers from different municipalities in Central Sweden. The results showed that all teachers considered it important to discuss child maltreatment with pupils in school. What could be perceived as an obstacle to raise the subject in school was that teachers lack knowledge about the subject, there is a lack of resources and some respondents thought it was a difficult subject to talk about. The results also show that the school's collaboration with the social services needs to be developed and improved. The study shows that more knowledge and more resources are needed to be able to inform children in grades 4-6 about maltreatmentat home in a more structured and functional way.