In 1924 a new law stated that every Swedish municipality had to create one authority containing al the boards that handled child issues. Before 1924 children often was put into fostercare without supervision or auctioned out to the lowest bidders and was used as farmworkers or for housekeeping.This essay will adress the fact that the authorities diden´t always know how well or unwell the children was being treated in fostercare. Many times people with good social and economic status could demand having a fosterchild without the authorities asking to many questions. With the material from Ljungbys local archives containing documents from the early 20th century, newspaper articales and other research this essay will compare and discuss how the authorities acted in different cases based on gender and social class. In this discussion we will focus manly on the children but also on the biologicalparents, the fosterparents and the members of the childrensboard. We will discuss if the authorities really did treat people different in mather of the fact that they are male, female, poor or rich. / Nej

Syftet med studien var att undersöka socialtjänstens tillvägagångssätt för att ta reda på och försäkra sig om att familjehemmen utför ett bra arbete. Metoden för undersökningen var kvalitativ och intervjuerna bestod av tre socialsekreterare och två familjehems par, i två olika kommuner. Barn placeras i familjehem dels på grund av bristande omsorg eller avvikande beteendemönster. För att uppnå god kvalité krävs goda och säkra insatser av kommunerna i form av utredningsmetoder, uppföljning samt handledning. I resultatet av denna studie framgår det att rekrytering av familjehem blir allt svårare. Orsakerna uppges bero på att många placerade barn har beteendeproblem och blir därför svårhanterliga.Utredningsmetoden för nyrekryterade familjehem inom socialtjänsten är främst Kälvestens modellen. Det är djupgående intervjuer med de blivande familjehemmen, som uppges ta 3 till 6 timmar. Resultatet visade på att socialsekreterarna har begränsad med tid för att träffa barnen utöver de uppföljningsmöten som utförs fyra gånger årligen. Handledningarna görs vid behov och beror på att det inte finns tillräckliga resurser samt att socialsekreterarna inte hinner med vissa arbetsuppgifter på grund av överbelastning. Nyckelord: familjehem, familjehems placerade barn, fosterbarn, fosterföräldrar, fostervård. / The purpose of this study was to investigate how the social services assure that foster homes provide the best care possible. The investigation consisted of interviews with three social workers and two foster home couples, in two different communities. Children placed in foster homes partly because of lack of care or abnormal behavior patterns. In order to maintain quality standard as a foster home it is necessary that communities investigate and do regular follow up meetings. The study shows a decreasing amount of foster homes. Reasons include that a lot of children are difficult to handle due to behavioral problems. The investigation method of recruiting new foster homes in the social services is primarily Kälvestens model. The interview with new foster home candidates is thorough and takes 3 to 6 hours. Results show that social workers have limited amount of time due to work load and are only able to meet for four follow up meetings per year. These guides are made when necessary and because there are insufficient resources and social workers do not have time for certain tasks because of overload.Keywords: children in fostercare, fostercare, fosterchildren, fosterhome, fosterparents.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka familjehemsföräldrars upplevelser av stödet de fick från en kommuns socialtjänst. Centrala frågor bestod utav hur familjehemsföräldrarna upplevde tillgängligheten av stödet och det emotionella stödet de fick från socialtjänsten samt hur stödet från socialtjänsten upplevdes i kontakt med den placerades nätverk. I studien har tio familjehemsföräldrar från fem familjehem i en mindre kommun i mellansverige intervjuats om deras upplevelser av stödet de får från socialtjänsten. Det är en kvalitativ studie som utgår ifrån utvecklingsekologisk teori samt systemteori. Studiens resultat visade att familjehemsföräldrarna var nöjda med stödet de fick från socialtjänsten i form av telefonsamtal och besök, och för ett av familjehemsparen även via e-post. Dock fanns missnöje över att familjehemsparen inte fick tillräckligt med stöd från socialsekreterarna i början av placeringen vilken upplevdes som en mer oviss och krävande tid. Socialsekreterarna upplevdes många gånger som otillgängliga och svåra att få tag på via telefon. Annat som lyftes fram var svårigheter med att urskilja vilket ansvar som låg på familjehemsparen och vilket ansvar som låg på socialsekreterarna. Osäkerhet fanns kring vem det egentligen var som skulle ansvara för delar av familjehemsuppdraget. Starkast upplevdes detta i upprätthållandet av kontakten med den placerades nätverk som i vissa fall upplevdes som ansträngt. Trots vissa svårigheter upplevdes det totala stödet som bra av samtliga familjehemsföräldrar. / The purpose of this study was to examine foster parents experiences of the support they have received from a municipality´s social service. Essential questions in the study was how the foster parents experienced the availability of support and the emotional support they  have  received from the social service as well as  how the support was experienced in contact with the placed child´s network. In this study, ten foster parents from five foster homes in a smaller town in the middle of Sweden were interviewed about their experiences of the support they have received from the social services. The study has a qualitative starting point with ecological systems theory and system theory. Our results demonstrate that the foster parents were satisfied with the support they have received from the social services in forms of phone calls and visits, and for one of the families also through e-mail. However, there were some dissatisfaction regarding not getting enough support from the social service in the beginning of the placement, which was considered to be a more uncertain and challenging time, and that social workers often were inaccessible and that they could be difficult to get hold on by phone. Other issues identified were difficulties in distinguishing which responsibilities lied on the family and which responsibilities lied on the social welfare. There were uncertainties about who really was responsible for parts of the family home mission, especially regarding maintaining of contact with the child's network that in some cases were seen as strained. Despite some difficulties, the overall support was perceived as good by all of the foster parents.

The aim of this study is to enhance the understanding of the possibilities and limitations of using the swedish law; SoL 5 kap. 2 §, among child- welfare workers and social workers within foster- care. The purpose of this law is to be able to prohibid or limitate inadequate foster-homes from taking care of foster-children. Qualitative interviews were conducted with three child-welfare workers and three social workers within foster-care, from three different municipalities. We have used hermeneutic interpretation to look at the empirical material and the theoretical framework of the study consists of Michael Lipskys theory about street-level bureaucracy. We also took part of previous research and other relevant literature in the field of foster-care to analyze the material. The result we found was that the knowledge and use of the law; SoL 5 kap. 2§ was limited. Some of our respondents had never heard about the law and none of our respondents had experience of using the law in their cases. Our respondents then, started to resonate about why they think that they have little knowledge about the law, and connected it to that there are deficiencies within the organization that create limitations in the social secretary's work in foster-home care. This limitations results in the social-workers having little knowledge about the law and not using it, even though they have high discretion in their everyday- job. To limitate inadequate foster-homes from having- and receiving placements, the social workers moved the child from the foster-home, and later gave negative references if other municipalities called, when they were thinking of placing a child in that specific foster-home. Our results show that this was not an optimal way of trying to limitate inadequate fosterhomes. Our respondents had experiences of other municipalities placing children in fosterhomes that they had given bad references about.