<p>Abstract</p><p>The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare has since a year or so started to introduce a new way to work with childcare investigations within the social services. This new concept, BBIC, is meant to put the child’s needs in the first room rather than the grownup’s as it used to be before. This study is about to examine how BBIC affects the legal security of the children within these childcare investigations.</p><p>BBIC was first developed in England after a massive criticism against the way that the foster home- and institutional care was handled. In Sweden, BBIC was first tested and developed into Swedish conditions in a few project municipalities for about five years but is now being introduced all over the country. This is also one of the most important purposes with BBIC, that every childcare investigation within the country is based on the same formula. For help, the social workers have a triangle, which contains three different areas of different basic needs that the child requires. The triangle, together with several forms, gives the social workers the tools to give more attention to what kind of measure the child really requires to get its basic needs satisfied.</p><p>To find out how BBIC affects the legal security of the children within childcare investigations, we decided to make this essay interdisciplinary. This means that apart from the legal approach, we’ve also used a psychological method to base an empirical ground. The empirical material consists of interviews with persons that in different ways are working with BBIC. These interviews are then used together with the theoretical part of the study, to form an analysis. This study is not meant to generalize, but to give a glimpse of the reality and create an understanding for the complexity in these matters.</p><p>The theoretical part of the study handles among other things, the United Nations convention on the rights of the child. This convention is of great importance every time interference in a child’s living conditions are made. The two articles of importance in this paper are article 3 about the best interests of the child, and article 12 about the child’s right to freedom of expression. We’re also examining the different laws in the subject area to find out whether BBIC agrees to the laws or not. The delimitations of this study are that we’re only examining BBIC considering the Swedish conditions, and neither will we examine any court proceedings.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:kau-609 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Jonåker, Hanna, Larsson, Lotta |
| Publisher | Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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