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There are 1000 HVB homes in Sweden and last year a fifth of the homes received criticism from Ivo. SVT Nyheter has examined the 50 homes in which there are serious or recurring problems.
These are girls who prostitute themselves without the staff intervening or informing social services. Staff struggling with children on the ground with one knee on their back. Collective punishments such as not being able to go to school or go home. Children who are isolated are threatened with being sent to state SiS homes or not allowed to have their cell phones.
Some events are described as particularly troublesome:
- In one house, children were punished for talking to Ivo. According to the children, the general director yelled at them because they “complained” about the repeated violations.
- In another house, staff have organized fights between the children who lived in the house, for their own entertainment. If the children refused, they threatened them with violence.
Turn off the alarm
Many parents and children also alert Ivo about insecurity with fights and police interventions.
“There is an avalanche of drugs and alcohol in the home. No control at all, “the staff write anonymously about a residence.
“They have had tattoo machines there, so now one of the children has tattooed my son on his hand,” writes one mother.
The recurring criticism is the lack of training or suitability of the staff. In addition, what young people need is often not investigated before they enroll, which means that they are mixed with different problems and affect each other negatively.
“Improved business”
SVT Nyheter has reached out to those who own and operate the 50 homes that received the worst reviews last year. Most write that they have listened to Ivo and improved the business. This concerns both small companies and large groups and municipalities.
Humana, which is one of the major players in the industry, has 16 households on the list.
– I would very much like us to avoid all kinds of events, we deal with very difficult children and young people and then things happen that are difficult to handle, says Johanna Rastad, Head of Individual and Family at Humana.
The Gryning Group is owned by the municipalities of Västra Götaland. In one of their homes that receives criticism, a girl was killed in a knife fight in 2018. That house was closed, but four other houses in the group are criticized.
– I want to emphasize that in all the surveys, customer surveys, that we do, we get extremely high ratings. Especially on security issues, says Katarina Ahlqvist, CEO of Gryning.
Violence, insults and insecurity – See SVT’s full review of misconduct in various Swedish HVB households in the player above.
