Every year, inspectors from Ivo, the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate, go out and inspect the more than a thousand HVB homes for forcibly placed children in Sweden.

There live children who may have mental illness, substance abuse, incipient crime or difficult home conditions that prevent them from living at home. 

In previous reviews, SVT has reported on the 50 HVB homes that have received serious criticism for the existence of violence, abuse, insecurity or restrictions on freedom.

SVT Nyheter has now in a unique database collected all the HVB homes that all municipalities bought places from for three years, and how much money they paid out.

Then we ran that data against the 50 most criticized homes.

And SVT can today reveal that over 200 million a year have gone home with repeated misconduct.

Linköping has paid out the most: SEK 93 million, followed by Västerås with SEK 42 million.

Both municipalities believe that they have control systems and follow the placements they have on these homes closely.

Every third crown

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Linköping has spent the most money on the worst criticized homes, hear how they respond in the clip.

Photo: SVT.

In nine municipalities, every third krona has gone to one or some of the 50 of the worst criticized homes.

The municipalities are: Lidingö, Håbo, Nykvarn, Linköping, Kramfors, Årjäng, Kil, Täby and Söderhamn.

The highest are Söderhamn and Täby, where every other krona goes to these homes.



June lived in one of the worst homes

One of those who lived in a home that received a lot of criticism for insecurity and untrained staff is June, 16 years old.  

Petra Olsson, area manager in Östersund, is responsible for that location.

She is surprised by the information.

She says that their investment coordinator always takes references from investing municipalities, but also refers to Sweden's municipalities and regions' procurement of a framework agreement.

- We start from SKL comments and the quality review that you have and that you do there.

Refers to SKR

Håbo, Lidingö and Nykvarn also refer to the framework agreement, which SKR has procured through its procurement company. 

- It is true that last year we hired a home that is on your list.

However, we do not procure HVB homes ourselves but invoke framework agreements from SKR.

According to the framework agreement, the follow-up responsibility at SKR is included.

But of course we have the ultimate responsibility for the youth being well where it ends up, says Liridona Rama, social manager in Nykvarn.

18 homes stand out in our review, here you can read the entire list

The worst homes can continue

SVT's review also shows that homes that have been blacklisted by their own municipality can be hired by other municipalities' social services that continue to send children there, without knowing the problems. An example is Vägarna further care, in Uppsala, which was investigated by both Ivo and Uppsala municipality last year after reports to the home about staff who are harsh, sexually harass children, try to recruit them to Islam and force the children to go to the mosque. 



The home rejected the information and was allowed to keep his permit, but was criticized by Ivo for violence.

It was about a child who was violently restrained by strangulation, until he had difficulty breathing.

After the alarms, Uppsala municipality made its own investigation and then decided not to continue to use the home.

Despite this, the company plans to reopen and here you can read how those responsible respond.

Tonight, SKR comes to Aktuellt's studio.