LVU-kampanjen har blivit ett samhällsfenomen som engagerar många föräldrar och Sveriges socialtjänst. Kampanjen har spridits på sociala medier och påverkat människor både nationellt och internationellt. Kampanjen har resulterat i ryktesspridningar som uttrycker att socialsekreterare kidnappar muslimska barn utan lagstöd. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka föräldrars upplevelse av LVU-kampanjen, orsakerna till att deras barn blev tvångsomhändertagna samt socialtjänstens arbete. Vidare kommer vi att undersöka socialsekreterares upplevelse av LVU-kampanjen och om den påverkat deras dagliga arbete. Vi har valt att genomföra en kvalitativ studie där vi intervjuat nio respondenter, fyra socialsekreterare och fem föräldrar. Socialsekreterarna berättar om deras upplevelser angående kampanjen och hur den påverkat deras arbete. Socialsekreterarna uppger att de behöver informera klienter på ett tydligare sätt och att klienter har en ökad oro i och med kampanjen. Föräldrarna i studien anser att kampanjen belyser orättvisor när det kommer till LVU-lagstiftningen och att enskilda socialsekreterare arbetar rättsosäkert. De socialsekreterare och föräldrar som medverkar i studien anser att det finns en brist i kommunikationen och att förtroendet för socialtjänsten har minskat. / The LVU campaign has become a social phenomenon that engages many parents and Sweden's social services. The campaign has spread on social media and influenced people both nationally and internationally. The campaign has resulted in rumors spreading that social workers are kidnapping Muslim children without legal support. The purpose of this study is to investigate parents' perceptions of the LVU campaign, the reasons why their children were taken into care and the work of social services. Furthermore, we will examine social workers' perceptions of the LVU campaign and whether it has affected their daily work. We have chosen to conduct a qualitative study where we interviewed nine respondents, four social workers and five parents. The social workers talk about their experiences regarding the campaign and how it affected their work. They state that they need to inform clients in a clearer way and that clients have an increased concern with the campaign. The parents in the study believe that the campaign highlights injustices when it comes to the LVU legislation and that individual social workers do not work in a legally secured way. The social workers and parents who participate in the study believe that there is a lack of communication and that trust in social services has decreased.

Since the new Swedish law was implemented in 2018, where hazard gambling was included in treating people with addiction, we wanted to investigate how the Swedish municipality and region collaborated to treat people with the syndrome. The purpose was to get a deeper understanding of how the municipality and region collaborate to reach consensus with people experiencing hazard gambling. The methods used to collect data was by qualitative semi-structured interviews through zoom- and team meetings. The results shows prerequisites for collaboration, aspects of power structures in the collaboration and organizational factors for reaching consensus. The conclusion is that the collaboration depends on co-morbidity, the effect of the hierarchy in- and between the organizations, the difference of the law and guidelines between the organizations to make the collaboration effective and that it is a lot of work to be done for reaching full potential in the collaborative process.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka det stöd och den hjälp familjehemsplacerade barn har fått av socialtjänsten. Fem personer som har varit placerade i familjehem under sin uppväxt har intervjuats och materialet har sedan analyserats med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Utifrån en induktiv ansats analyserades materialet först teorilöst för att sedan genomgå en andra analys utifrån teorin barndomssociologi och det teoretiska begreppet handlingsutrymme. Resultatet pekar på att socialarbetaren har en viktig och svår uppgift där skapandet av en tillitsfull relation är av stor vikt för att barnet ska kunna bli delaktig i processen. Lyhördhet, anpassning efter individ och situation samt att skapa utrymme för barnet att komma med önskemål är mycket betydelsefullt. Detta försvåras då socialarbetarna ofta har en stor arbetsbörda och begränsade resurser. / The purpose of this study is to look into what kind of support and help the social services has given to children placed in foster care. Five people who have been living in foster families during their childhood were interviewed and then the data was analyzed with qualitative content analysis. On the basis of an inductive approach the data was first analyzed theorylessly and then in a secondary analysis the theory of children studies and the theoretical term discretion/acting space was applied. The result indicates that the social workers have an important and difficult task where the building of a relationship of trust is essential if the child should be able to really participate in the process. To be perceptive and make adjustments according to what is best for the individual and in the situation, and to make room for the child to express their wishes is significant. This can be difficult to manage because of the great workload social workers often have along with limited resources.

There has been a high influx of unaccompanied refugee children who have come to Sweden, the number increased particularly in 2015 compared with previous years. It is the municipalities, and therefor the social services, responsibility to provide adequate care for this children. The purpose of the study is to gain an understanding of the social services work and opportunities to meet the needs of unaccompanied children in accordance with the child's best, in relation to the convention on the rights of the child. The study is based on a qualitative approach and the method is semi-structured interviews with three managers in the field and three social workers. According to the results, social services has faced a challenge in meeting the needs of unaccompanied children in both a lack of resources such as accommodations and lack of social workers. The results also show that there are some difficulties to consider the child's best in the work with the unaccompanied children, partly to the lack of resources wich inhibits the ability to meet the child's wishes and because of differences of opinion about what is best for the child. The organisation has faced a change in order to cope with the large influx of unaccompanied children and therefore organization theory is used in the analysis. Theoretical concepts that is used in the study is discretion and street level bureaucracy due the social workers is street level bureaucracies whose work with unaccompanied children is affected by their discretion given by the organization.

Previous researches show that women with substance abuse are more likely to be exposed to domestic violence and that they are having a hard time to get help and support from Social Services. Our study aims to understand how social workers experience both their professional role and organisation when working with women who suffers from domestic violence and abuse ubstances such as drugs and alcohol. This study is qualitative and was done with semi-structed interviews with eight professionals who work in various Social Services in the south of Sweden. The results show that among other things the organization’s economy together with lack of protective houses plays a big part in the professional’s work with these women. We also found that the structure of the Social Services’s organization and the way the professional relate to his work affect these women’s needs av help and support.

Studiens syfte var att undersöka hur tjänstemän hos socialtjänsten och polisen uppfattar samverkan mellan de olika organisationerna, mer specifikt samverkan som metod i arbetet mot brott i nära relationer. Studien ämnade även undersöka hur de uppfattar myndigheternas roller i ett sådant samarbete. För att undersöka detta genomfördes semistrukturerade intervjuer med tjänstemän från båda myndigheterna, i både förstadiet och efter genomförandet av ett samverkansprojekt mot brott i nära relationer. Studiens resultat visade att idén om att samverka mot brott i nära relationer har ett starkt stöd bland tjänstemännen hos båda myndigheterna. De faktorer som uppfattades som viktigast för en effektiv samverkan är en tydlig ansvarsfördelning mellan aktörerna, att förankra metoden i hela organisationen, en administrativ samordning och att samverkan får tillräckliga resurser. Resultatet visade också att tjänstemännen hos de båda myndigheterna hade en tydlig bild av den egna yrkesrollen, men att en osäkerhet hos aktören kan dyka upp när hen förväntas agera på ett vis som inte är i linje med den egna uppfattningen om rollen. / The aim of the study was to investigate how officials of the social services and the police perceived inter-organizational collaboration. More specifically inter-organizational collaboration as a method in the work against intimate partner violence. The study also aimed to examine how they perceive the authorities' roles in such cooperation. In order to investigate this, semi-structured interviews have been carried out with officials from both authorities. The interviews were conducted both in the preliminary stage and after a collaborative project against intimate partner violence. The study's result showed that the idea of cooperating against this type of problems has a strong support among the officials of both authorities. Factors that are perceived as the most important for effective collaboration are a clear division of responsibilities between the actors; to have the collaboration on an institutional level, instead of interpersonal, administrative coordination and ensuring that the collaboration has sufficient resources. The result also showed that the officials of the two authorities had a clear conception what constitutes as their professional role. That clear conception can create an uncertainty within the actor when he or she is expected to act in a manner that is not in line with his or her perception of the role.

Digitalisering är i dagsläget ett aktuellt ämne i samhället och inom socialt arbete. Boendestöd är en insats som erbjuds av socialtjänsten till bland annat människor med funktionsnedsättning. Boendestödet innefattar ett praktiskt och socialt stöd, där målet är att klienten ska kunna leva ett självständigt liv. Med hänsyn till digitalisering var det av relevans att undersöka hur det kan påverka boendestödet och organisationen, professionen samt relationen till klienten. Därför var syftet med studien att undersöka digitalisering av boendestödsverksamheter i Halmstad kommun för att skapa djupgående förståelse av digitaliseringens möjligheter och svårigheter för verksamheterna och målgruppen. Vidare var syftet att undersöka vilka synsätt de som arbetar med boendestöd eller digitalisering, har till digitalisering av boendestödsinsatser. Studien hade sin utgångspunkt i en kvalitativ forskningsansats, där nio semi-strukturerade intervjuer genomfördes. Urvalet bestod av två digitaliserings-experter, fyra enhetschefer och tre boendestödjare. Resultatet visade en mängd möjligheter och svårigheter och vilka synsätt som finns till digitalisering av boendestödet. En svårighet var kunskapen som boendestödjaren behöver besitta om välfärdsteknik. En möjlighet var att använda digitala verktyg för att effektivisera resursfördelningen i verksamheten. En slutsats som framkom i studien var att teknikens användande och komplettering av arbetssätt påverkas av klientens intresse, kunskap, funktionsnedsättning och ålder. Andra slutsatser var att det behövs mer utbildning för boendestödjare kring tekniken, en mer enhetlig samsyn kring digitalisering och skapas flera samt nya tillvägagångssätt i boendestödet. / Digitization is today a current topic in society and social work. Residential support is an  intervention  offered  by  social  services  to  people  with  disabilities,  among  other groups. Residential support includes practical and social support with the goal being that the client can live an independent life. With regards to digitization it were relevant to investigate how it can affect the residential support and the organization, profession and relation to the client. Thus the purpose of this study was to investigate digitization  of  residential  support  organizations  in  the  municipality  of  Halmstad  to produce a thorough understanding of possibilities and difficulties in digitization for the  organization  and  target  group.  The  purpose  was  also  to  investigate  what  stances those  who  work  with  residential  support  or  digitization  have  towards  digitization  of residential support.This  study  had  a  qualitative  approach,  where  nine  semi-structured  interviews  took place. The sample of the study included two digitization experts, four managers and three  residential  support  employees.  The  studies  result  showed  a  variation  of possibilities and difficulties as well as what stances that exists towards digitization of residential  support.  Knowledge  for  the  residential  supporter  of welfare  technology was a difficulty. The use of digital technology to streamline the use of resources in the organization was a possibility. The study concluded that the use of digital technology and its supplement of work methods can be influenced by factors such as the client’s interest,  knowledge,  disability  and  age.  Additional  conclusions  were  the  need  for more  education  about  digital  technology  for  the  residential  supporter,  the  need  of consensus  in  regards  of  digitization  and  the  creation  of  several  and  new  approaches in residential support.

Att massmedia är med och skapar allmänhetens uppfattning om verkligheten är kanske inget man tänker på dagligen. Massmedia har utifrån sina gestaltningar en stor makt att påverka hur allmänheten tolkar olika samhällsfenomen. Syftet med studien var att ta reda på vilken gestaltning media skapar av socialarbetarnas arbetsmiljö och dess effekter. Likväl vilken bild som media förmedlar till allmänheten. Frågeställningarna hade för avsikt att undersöka hur socialarbetarnas arbetsmiljö framställdes, vilka förhållanden kopplade till arbetsmiljön som framträdde och vilka aktörer som fick komma till tals i artiklarna. För att nå vårt resultat genomfördes en framinganalys, det vill säga, genom att rama in hur journalisterna strategiskt, medvetet eller omedvetet framställer det dem vill förmedla. Till vår hjälp i analysarbetet användes gestaltningsteorin för att kunna ta reda på hur media gestaltar och framställer socialarbetarnas arbetsmiljö och dess effekter. De 15 analyserade tidningsartiklarna som användes för studien publicerades mellan åren 2014–2019. Det framkom inte speciellt stora skillnader i hur journalisterna beskrev socialarbetarnas arbetsförhållanden mellan det undersökta tidsspannet. Det framkom bland annat att socialtjänsten framställs vara en ohälsosam arbetsplats och att socialarbetare flyr på grund av tunga arbetskrav och en arbetsmiljö präglad av hot och våld. De gestaltningsramar som framkom tydligt i studien var generella gestaltningar. Vilka formas av en medielogik som journalisterna själva skapat, det vill säga, utifrån nyhetsredaktionernas värderingar, praktiker och rutiner. Betydelsen för hur de olika gestaltningarna påverkar diskuteras i studien såväl som vilka effekter och vilket inflytande dem olika aktörerna som får komma till tals kan ha på allmänheten. / The fact that the media is involved and creates the public's perception of reality is perhaps nothing you think of daily. Based on their design, the mass media has a great power to influence how the public interprets different social phenomena. The aim of this study was to find which framing the media creates by the social workers' work environment and its effects. As well as which image media conveys to the public. The study's questions intended to examine how the social workers' work environment was presented, what conditions that emerged were linked to the work environment and which participants were to be heard in articles. To achieve our results, a framing analysis was carried out, by framing how the journalists strategically, consciously or unknowingly, produced what they want to convey. To our help in the analysis work, the framing theory was used to be able to find out how the media portray and produce the social workers' work environment and its effects. The 15 analyzed newspaper articles used for the study were published between 2014–2019. There were no particularly large differences in how the journalists described the social workers' working conditions between the time span examined. It emerged, among other things, that the social service as a workplace is presented as an unhealthy workplace and that social workers flee due to heavy work demands and because of a work environment characterized by threats and violence. The frames that emerged clearly in the study were general frames. Which are formed by a media logic that the journalists themselves created, that is, based on news editorial values, practices and routines. The significance of how the different frames influence is discussed in the study as well as what effects the various participants that may come to speak has influence on the public.

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att undersöka hur socialsekreterare verksamma på ekonomiskt bistånd upplever sitt handlingsutrymme med hänsyn till verksamhetens ekonomiska krav samt ur ett rättssäkerhetsperspektiv. Som utgångspunkt i studien tillämpas det teoretiska perspektivet New Public Management som menar att offentlig sektor under de senaste årtiondena har formats efter företagsliknande strukturer. Sju socialsekreterare på socialtjänstens avdelning för ekonomiskt bistånd i en kommun i Sverige intervjuades enligt semistrukturerade intervjuer. I resultatet framkommer det att centrala påverkansfaktorer av handlingsutrymmet såsom personliga värderingar, det kollegiala stödet samt omgivande aktörers ageranden identifieras. Vidare påvisar resultatet att samtliga informanter upplever sitt handlingsutrymme som stort samt att ekonomiska krav inte påverkar handlingsutrymmet då det alltid föreligger en individuell bedömning. Något intressant är att det tycks råda en motsägelsefullhet eftersom informanterna ändå identifierar begränsningar i handlingsutrymmet. Vidare tycks den individuella bedömningen, som ger stort utrymme för tolkning, möjliggöra att rättssäkerheten kan äventyras. / <p>2019-01-15</p>

Having ratified the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child), the Swedish government and its authorities are responsible towards their young citizens to guarantee them care, protection and to be put first. In addition, children have a right to participation in processes and decisions which affect them. Especially in situations where the child is in need of protection. In research, children´s protection and children´s participation has been investigated as two separate, and often opposing rights, and the perception of children has in many regards been an ambivalent one. This study is focusing on the perception of the child and their participation in their welfare using two perspectives that splits the perception of the child: Children as subjects of rights and children as objects of care. The study investigates the perceptions of children and their participation in family therapy at Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUP) and family treatment at the municipal Social Services. Family therapy/treatment is a treatment aimed to gather the family to solve their common problems based on the system theory that perceive the family as a system. Through eight qualitative interviews with therapists and social workers, the study investigates the respondents own perceptions. The study finds that both the perception of the child as subjects of rights and as objects of care is found both at BUP and at the Social Service, although the perception of children as subjects of rights is more clear at the BUP and the perception of children as objects of care more clear at the Social Services. A discovery is that the Social services is more clearly using concepts linked to the system theory at the same time as being treating the parents as the main actors in the treatment with slightly less focus on the child´s participation. BUP, on the other hand is more clearly using concepts linked to the child as the patient with more individual and clear focus on the child´s participation, suggesting that where there is a perception of the family as a system, there is less focus on the child´s participation and where there is more of an individual focus, there is more focus on the child´s participation.