On Monday, the government's special investigator Lotta Edholm (L) handed over her investigation to Minister of Education Anna Ekström.

The investigation is about children in preschool improving their language development in Swedish.

Every second six-year-old at the primary schools in the Järva area in Stockholm speaks Swedish too poorly.

The children risk not meeting the knowledge goals, warns the head of the primary school Happy Hilmarsdottir-Arenvall.

Ekström hesitant about compulsory preschool

The inquiry proposes, among other things, that preschool should become compulsory from the age of five.

Something Anna Ekström (S) was hesitant about when she was interviewed in Aktuellt.

- The road via coercion, we have to think extra.

I do not want to completely close the door on that proposal, but we must think it through carefully before we move on with it.

We have a preschool that has been based on voluntary participation for many years and where we have a very high enrollment rate, says Anna Ekström.

Instead, the Minister of Education believes in two of the other proposals that the inquiry raised - outreach activities and direct enrollment.

- These are interesting proposals that I would like to look at further, says Anna Ekström.

The proposal for outreach activities is based on the municipality being required to conduct active outreach activities in order to get more foreign-born children to come to preschool.

Direct enrollment is about the municipalities being required to enroll the children who have the greatest need to learn Swedish in preschool.

That is, the children get a preschool place from the age of three, even if the parents have not applied for one.

Then the parents can say no to the place if they want.

The Minister: Teachers and caretakers must know good Swedish

The Minister of Education also pointed out that it is not enough for children to come to preschool.

- Those who work in preschool should speak good Swedish, it does not matter to me much if they break into Swedish, but it is clear that they should know the Swedish language, says Anna Ekström.

See the interview with Minister of Education Anna Ekström in Aktuellt in the player above.