The mother demands a change in the law – worried about her son's safety at the HVB home Solgläntan

SVT has previously reported that the current social services law means that HVB homes cannot stop young people from bringing weapons and drugs. 

"Tommy", as we can call him, lives in a treatment home, and his mother is part of a group of parents who all have their children at Solgläntan.

Two relapses at the treatment home

They have seen up close how the Social Services Act created problems for their children.

- Integrity is more important than safety, my own son has relapsed twice in the treatment home, says Tommy's mother.

As she sees it, the problem is that the staff are not allowed to search through the young people's bags nor take their mobile phones according to Ivo's new way of working to make the treatment homes comply with the law.

"A nightmare"

But according to the critics, the result has been that the staff cannot stop the young people from bringing weapons and drugs into the home.

- It's a nightmare.

I think he should be better off there than at home.

I cannot supervise my adult son in the same way as you can in an HVB home.

I want the HVB homes to be given the conditions to carry out the mission they are set to carry out, says the mother.

Hope for a change in the law

Now she is pinning her hopes on the government keeping the promise Social Services Minister Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (M) made in an interview with SVT a few weeks ago, that it is a priority area for the government to change the Social Services Act.

- You don't want a son at home who orders drugs whenever he wants, has debts and who sleeps with a weapon under his pillow.

He needs to be protected from himself, says Tommy's mother.