It was on 12 October earlier this year that the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate (Ivo) directed strong criticism at the social welfare board in Norrköping municipality for how they handled Esmeralda's case.

Ivo's Director General Sofie Wallström, for example, called the handling of the case "a capital failure on the part of society" during a press conference.

The administrators were not asked

Now employees in the social services in Norrköping municipality are writing a letter to Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren (S).

This is to criticize Ivo's investigation of the case.

In the letter, they question, among other things, that Ivo did not speak directly to the staff concerned at the social services.

“Regarding IVO's review, however, we feel great helplessness over how the review was conducted.

This is based on the fact that IVO has chosen not to talk to us or anyone else at our social services office.

IVO has only examined the written file, which means that a large part of the complexity that we, and social secretaries around the country, are faced with on a daily basis is not made visible ", the administrators write in the letter.

Disappointed at press conference

The administrators are also disappointed with how Ivo presented the investigation.

"We are also concerned and shaken that IVO chooses to notify criticism of this very serious degree at a press conference without any prior information to us who worked with the case," the administrators write.

In the letter, the administrators also write that Ivo refused to meet them.

The authority must only have agreed to meet the social director and the head of operations.

Wear until February

What the administrators find most remarkable about them is that Ivo's investigation did not take the judgment of the Court of Appeal into account.

The most remarkable thing is that the review does not at all weigh into the consequences of the Court of Appeal's judgment which in practice gave the “decision” back to the parents ”.

The municipality of Norrköping has been fined for remedying the identified shortcomings in the handling of the Esmeralda case by February next year.

The background to the case can be found here, or in the clip below:

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Esmeralda from Norrköping was only three years old.

Photo: Private.