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Hur förverkligas barnets bästa av politiker och ledning i socialförvaltningen?

Ahl, Isabell (2003)
School of Social Work
Abstract
The main purpose of this essay was to study how the social service committee and a special management at social service has implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the child, and particularly children’s perspective in the law of the Swedish Social Service. I have particularly concentrated on; how politicians and civil servants of social service describe the content in the UN Convention on the Rights of the child and how the social service can meet with the demands; how the staff has been trained in this matter and how this can be supervised. The study was based on five qualitative interviews conducted with two politicians and three civil servants of social service. My conclusion of the study is that lack of resources in social... (More)
The main purpose of this essay was to study how the social service committee and a special management at social service has implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the child, and particularly children’s perspective in the law of the Swedish Social Service. I have particularly concentrated on; how politicians and civil servants of social service describe the content in the UN Convention on the Rights of the child and how the social service can meet with the demands; how the staff has been trained in this matter and how this can be supervised. The study was based on five qualitative interviews conducted with two politicians and three civil servants of social service. My conclusion of the study is that lack of resources in social service limits the possibilities for the social worker to understand "the best interest of the child" according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the child. There is even ideological management insufficiency from the politicians who are responsible for the implementation of the law. (Less)
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author
Ahl, Isabell
supervisor
organization
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
language
Swedish
id
1358865
date added to LUP
2004-11-08 00:00:00
date last changed
2004-11-08 00:00:00
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  abstract     = {{The main purpose of this essay was to study how the social service committee and a special management at social service has implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the child, and particularly children’s perspective in the law of the Swedish Social Service. I have particularly concentrated on; how politicians and civil servants of social service describe the content in the UN Convention on the Rights of the child and how the social service can meet with the demands; how the staff has been trained in this matter and how this can be supervised. The study was based on five qualitative interviews conducted with two politicians and three civil servants of social service. My conclusion of the study is that lack of resources in social service limits the possibilities for the social worker to understand "the best interest of the child" according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the child. There is even ideological management insufficiency from the politicians who are responsible for the implementation of the law.}},
  author       = {{Ahl, Isabell}},
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  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Hur förverkligas barnets bästa av politiker och ledning i socialförvaltningen?}},
  year         = {{2003}},
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