Then we did the review of the HVB homes

Thousands of children are placed in homes to receive care or because their families or family homes do not work.

We wanted to know how these kids are doing. 

The Health and Care Inspectorate inspects these homes every year, they interview the children and sometimes make unannounced visits.  

In the autumn, we read all the inspections in 2019 where they found problems, and then we made a database with them.

There were 200 homes that were either criticized or closed.

In addition, we all requested injunctions with fines, police reports, indictments, bans, revocation of permits and Lex Sarah reports.  

We focused on those homes that received extra serious criticism, or were part of groups where several of the homes were criticized.

Those who have been criticized for violence and violations, illegal rules and restrictions on freedom, that the home is unsafe, that the business is conducted without a permit, that they have been fined or that their permit has been revoked.

In total, about 50 HVB homes stood out and had the worst criticism.

Then we went through reports from 2017, 2018 and so far in the year 2020 to see how many of these homes have received recurring serious criticism.

Follow-up review

Now, in 2021, we have once again asked Ivo for a list of all cases that have ended with criticism, and where we have found some of “our” homes, we have brought home the inspection reports themselves.   

At the same time, we have sent a survey to all of Sweden's municipalities and asked to receive a specification of all private providers where the municipalities placed HVB-placed children and young people in the years 2018 to 2020. Now we have the opportunity to see which municipalities have hired the HVB homes which we judged in our review does not measure up and also how much money each municipality spends on these homes.

Updated worst list

From our "worst list", we have selected the homes with the most serious criticism.

These are 18 homes that have been criticized more than once in 2017-2021 and where the criticism is about threats and violence, insecurity and / or impermissible restrictions.

Companies on our worst list have in the last three years received approximately 140 million per year from 96 of our 222 municipalities that were able to specify the costs.

In total, they received 50 HVB homes with repeated alarms and documented misconduct on our list of 200 million a year during the years 2018-2020.

Almost two thirds of the municipalities have hired one or more of the homes on our 50 list.