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The moderates want it to be easier to forcibly care for children whose parents are part of criminal gangs. In Ekot’s Saturday interview, M’s leader Ulf Kristersson says they want to give police and prosecutors the authority to care for children according to the Youth Care Act, LVU.
But the Social Democrats oppose the proposal. The Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren writes in a comment to Ekot that the police do not need more areas of responsibility.
“The children of gang criminals can already be cared for today by social services with the support of LVU,” he writes.
The Left Party is also critical and believes that care must be taken in a safe and regulated manner.
The teacher thinks children can pay the price
Pernilla Leviner, a professor of public law at Stockholm University and director of the Center for the Rights of the Child, believes that the application of LVU that Kristersson proposes can affect children.
She believes that it is strange to give the police and prosecutors the same authority as social services and emphasizes that LVU is a protection law and not a criminal law.
– Talk about taking care of children so that they are not recruited by gangs. But taking care of children and taking them away from their families is as if the child had to pay the price, says Leviner in an interview with Swedish newspaper.
