LVU ärenden - Föräldrarna i Fokus — Bedömning och stöd

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay is to investigate how social workers assess whether the care with the Swedish legislation, Care of young persons act, LVU, should be terminated. And also to examine what measures and support are given to the biological parents after the application of LVU. To examine this a semi-structured, qualitative interview took place where four social workers from a town in the south of Sweden participated. All these social workers, child investigators, work with cases involving children in which LVU is used. The results were analyzed using development-ecological theory. The results show that there are several types of support for the parents, both individually oriented and more general in groups. The survey shows that the decision whether the care with LVU should be terminated does not only land on the child investigators but is also determined by other social workers. And that these social workers' observations during follow-ups are crucial.