Samverkan för barnets bästa : Yrkesverksammas erfarenheter kring samverkan i mottagandet av ensamkommande barn

Sammanfattning: Children and adolescents without a parent, or other representative, annually come to seek asylum in Sweden. In the work with unaccompanied children there are many actors who have different responsibilities and interaction between these actors is essential to meet the unaccompanied children’s needs. Our purpose with this study was to generate knowledge for professionals for a possible development in the receipt of unaccompanied children. We have conducted a qualitative study, through interviews with eight professionals. In the result, we concluded that the interaction of these actors exist in varying degrees. The difference in the extent of interaction depends mainly on the authorities involved in the interaction but also on the individual officials within the authorities. There is an expectation of an improved and developed collaboration in the future between authorities.