After the police murder: Report reveals the social services' shortcomings

All social secretaries who work with children and young people in Hisingen's social administration will receive training in getting young people to stop breaking norms, starting in February.

An internal investigation within Hisingen's social administration that was conducted after the police murder states that none of the officers at the Children and Young People unit had training in any risk assessment method linked to crime.

The four who had it had all stopped.

Bought in education

The administration has now purchased training that will streamline the work of counteracting norm-breaking behavior or that young people at risk develop it.

- We plan for extensive training initiatives.

We already saw in the spring that we just missed the part about risk and protection assessments linked to crime, says unit manager Alexis Ljungkvist to SVT Nyheter Väst.

Why have you not had this competence before?

- I can not answer for how they used to work in the district committees, but we did risk assessments based on other models, such as honor.

Now it is also linked to crime.

Learn to assess risks

The training is called ESTER, lasts two full days and means that the staff have the opportunity to learn to assess the risks of crime in a structured way when investigating children and young people.

It is expected to cost SEK 130,000 plus VAT.

- We in the committee completely agree that they should do all the things that the administration itself believes they need.

I will closely follow this at every meeting in the future, says Simona Mohamsson (L), chairman of the committee at Hisingen.

"Investigation times must be reduced"

The own evaluation also concluded that there are no written routines for whether a child should be taken into care immediately in accordance with the Act on the Care of Young People and that it is necessary to inform that all reports of concern must be in writing.

- From a political point of view, we also see that the investigation times must be reduced, today the maximum time according to law is two months, says Simona Mohamsson (L).

Reducing the investigation times is included as a point in the recently hammered budget from the alliance for the city of Gothenburg, where the goal is for the investigation time to be one month instead of four.