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"Det blir ett beslut i mängden" Beaktandet av barnet bästa inom ekonomiskt bistånd

Sätterkvist, Emil LU and Svensson, Niklas LU (2021) SOPA63 20211
School of Social Work
Abstract
Our goal with this thesis was to develop an understanding of how social workers on financial assistance relate to the consideration of the child's best interests based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the handling of cases involving children. We considered this to be relevant since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into Swedish law 1 January 2020. This combined with proven difficulties in the implementation of the child perspective in financial assistance awoke our interest. Our study consists of seven semistructured interviews to form our qualitative approach. Our analysis is based on Michael
Lipsky’s theory of street level bureaucracy. Within the theory of street level bureaucracy, we have used a... (More)
Our goal with this thesis was to develop an understanding of how social workers on financial assistance relate to the consideration of the child's best interests based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the handling of cases involving children. We considered this to be relevant since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into Swedish law 1 January 2020. This combined with proven difficulties in the implementation of the child perspective in financial assistance awoke our interest. Our study consists of seven semistructured interviews to form our qualitative approach. Our analysis is based on Michael
Lipsky’s theory of street level bureaucracy. Within the theory of street level bureaucracy, we have used a further developed concept of professional discretion. Knowledge, professionalism and uncertainty have been our leading themes. When legislation and organizational frameworks lag in development, the social secretaries' professional discretion becomes decisive in considering the best interests of the child, therefore their discretion expands. This can result in various consequences which we discuss further in this thesis. Despite some ambiguities about how the various articles of the Convention on the Rights of
the Child are to be implemented in the field of financial assistance, the incorporation seems to have made the child rights perspective topical in Swedish financial assistance. (Less)
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author
Sätterkvist, Emil LU and Svensson, Niklas LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPA63 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Child perspective, discretion, financial assistance, The Convention on the Rights of the Child
language
Swedish
id
9047824
date added to LUP
2021-06-16 16:33:29
date last changed
2021-06-16 16:33:29
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  abstract     = {{Our goal with this thesis was to develop an understanding of how social workers on financial assistance relate to the consideration of the child's best interests based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the handling of cases involving children. We considered this to be relevant since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into Swedish law 1 January 2020. This combined with proven difficulties in the implementation of the child perspective in financial assistance awoke our interest. Our study consists of seven semistructured interviews to form our qualitative approach. Our analysis is based on Michael
Lipsky’s theory of street level bureaucracy. Within the theory of street level bureaucracy, we have used a further developed concept of professional discretion. Knowledge, professionalism and uncertainty have been our leading themes. When legislation and organizational frameworks lag in development, the social secretaries' professional discretion becomes decisive in considering the best interests of the child, therefore their discretion expands. This can result in various consequences which we discuss further in this thesis. Despite some ambiguities about how the various articles of the Convention on the Rights of
the Child are to be implemented in the field of financial assistance, the incorporation seems to have made the child rights perspective topical in Swedish financial assistance.}},
  author       = {{Sätterkvist, Emil and Svensson, Niklas}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{"Det blir ett beslut i mängden" Beaktandet av barnet bästa inom ekonomiskt bistånd}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}