“The New Arab” investigates the consequences of the mistakes in applying the rules of separating children from their families and re-depositing them with care bodies through the Swedish Social Services Department known as “Social”, which leads to health and psychological problems.
The nine-year-old Swedish girl, Ingrid, lives in a whirlpool of crying and panic, for fear of being left alone, even for short moments. She has had constant anxiety and fear since returning to her family last year after an absence of 5 years, after she was withdrawn by the Social Welfare Department in 2016. And depositing her in two different foster homes, respectively, according to her Swedish mother, Catherine Dawes.
“Social” decided to withdraw the girl after she twice took a drug intended for her father, who suffers from mental illness, and the matter took place after an investigation and presentation of the mother to a psychiatrist who diagnosed her with autism spectrum disorder on April 11, 2016, but later it was found that the diagnosis was wrong, according to a medical report issued on On June 21, 2016, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reviewed it, but before that, “Social” decided to withdraw Ingrid and deposit her in an emergency house (he receives the child for a short time when the municipal social welfare board needs to investigate his situation) for a period of two months, and then she was transferred To the alternative family home in which she stayed for 3 years, after which she moved to the home of a second family who spent two years with her, and these movements, according to the mother, are what made Ingrid currently worried all the time, in anticipation of being transferred to another house and another school, and she also misses the family that took care of her and cannot They understand why they don't want to see her anymore, and she is having trouble communicating with her mother after losing her German.
The separation of the child under social care from his original environment and his network of knowledge, as happened with Ingrid, is a violation of his rights, according to what Inger Marie Larson, Director of the Social Welfare Department (following the implementation of the Social Welfare Law), admits, in the city of Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden, confirming. The importance of allowing the child to maintain contact with his family, his language and his culture, taking into account his interests, which is guaranteed by Law No. 52: 1990. However, the abuses in the application of the rules of law by “Social” have health and psychological consequences that harm children, according to what “Al-Araby Al-Jadeed” documents. in the investigation.