The purpose of this study is to investigate how social workers experience children's participation in childcare investigations, and whether the work has been affected since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was enacted. The study is based on a qualitative method and has been conducted through five semi-structured interviews with social workers. The data have been processed using a thematic analysis, thereafter the empirical material has been analyzed based on KASAM, the concept of power, Shier's Pathways to Participation model and previous research. Our results show that there is a lack of a uniform view of how children's participation should be attended to in practice. Furthermore, a lack of resources and the children's age and level of maturity appeared as factors that could reduce children's opportunities for participation. At last, the results indicate that the statutory provision of the Convention on the Rights of the Child had a minimal impact on the social worker’s daily work. In only a few cases it seems to have contributed to more frequent discussions about the convention.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-58566 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Sandberg, Linnea, Lindberg, Ester |
| Publisher | Mälardalens universitet, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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