SVT Nyheter has examined the locks, mainly of girls with diagnoses or self-harming behavior.

Here are the parts of our review:

Tea's story

Téa, 16 years old, has been forcibly placed since she was 11. First in family homes, then in various HVB homes and since she was 13 years old in various SiS institutions, state youth care homes.

She wants to tell you about what it's like to grow up like that, and what she has learned during her upbringing as a locked up.

Here you can read a longer special about how Teá has been locked around in the system and the report "Life as locked in" you can watch on SVT Play.

The rising costs

We have contacted all municipalities' social services and requested figures and data for how they invest the money in placed children.

It turned out that the costs are increasing and that almost half of the money, 45% is invested in institutional care.

Every tenth kroner is spent on locking children in the most closed homes, state youth care, SiS.

The responsible

They all agree that some children and young people should not be cared for in institutions, but in psychiatry.

In order to be able to help those who feel the worst and risk harming themselves or others, a pilot project will soon be launched in a number of regions to increase cooperation between psychiatry and the state's youth care.

From SiS's perspective, the picture is that young people in some cases also stay there longer than necessary, because the municipalities lack a plan for what will happen after the exclusion.

From the municipality's perspective, Säter in this case, it is stated that they are trying to limit the time in a locked institution and that an investment in SiS is a measure when “other investment alternatives are exhausted”.

Facts about the locked children

Hear Lotta Sima, researcher at SVT tell about facts to understand how the locked children in SIS homes feel.

Almost half, 46 percent, of the girls feel that they can rarely or never trust the staff.

SIS chief: "we can not take care of those with the most difficult diagnoses"

Johan Feldtmann, head of department at SiS Margretelund in Lidköping, believes that young people do not receive the care they should be entitled to.

The SiS chief says that his staff are too often forced to turn around at the door of BUP with suicidal children and young people, who they then have to watch around the clock.