At the beginning of March, the Swedish Migration Agency issued a request to the municipalities, via the county administrative boards, for so-called evacuation sites.
As the situation has stabilized compared with the assessment at the beginning of March, the Swedish Migration Board now sees a reduced need for evacuation places.
Instead of a total of 12,000 places in the country, the need is now 6,000 places.
In Jönköping County, this affects the former nursing home Västerhäll, which just a couple of weeks ago was prepared as housing for refugees and where about 60 Ukrainians now live.
- The municipality has gathered strength around this task.
Both employees and volunteers in civil society have lined up in a fantastic way.
Now we have received new information to relate to and that means that we have to rethink and pause the business we have built up, says Stefan Österström, social director in Jönköping municipality in a press release.
Several other homes in the county that have been put in order will now also be closed down.