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Der frühere Missbrauch von Kindern in der Ersatzfürsorge ist ein wichtiges Thema der Politik geworden, wie die Einrichtung von Untersuchungskommissionen, offizielle Entschuldigungen und staatliche Aufarbeitungsbemühungen zeigen. Menschen, die als Kinder von ihren Geburtsfamilien getrennt und in Pflegefamilien oder in Heimen Gewalt erfuhren, haben in den letzten Jahren ihre Stimme erhoben und ihre Rechte als Überlebende des Missbrauchs eingefordert. Wie können wir aber Missbrauch und Gewalt im Hinblick auf historische Zeiten definieren, in denen Kinder nicht denselben…
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In this article, the authors discuss residential staff in Sweden where residential care is part of the municipal child welfare system, which covers services targeting juvenile delinquency as well as other residential care services. Children and young people placed in Swedish residential care have diverse needs, from mainly supportive needs to advanced behavioral problems, and the field consists of open and secure residential care units.
There is limited knowledge about the staff working in residential care. This article helps to fill this knowledge gap by giving an…
Rapporten visar på omfattande sexuella övergrepp och kränkningar mot barn på svenska statliga ungdomshem – platser som är avsedda att vara trygga för unga med omfattande psykosocial problematik. Kunskapen om att barn utsätts för sexuella övergrepp på SiS har funnits länge. Bara förra året kom granskningar från Institutionen för vård och omsorg (IVO), Justitieombudsmannen (JO) och Statskontoret som alla visade på stora brister inklusive våld och sexuella övergrepp. Genom rapporten “Vem ska tro på mig?” görs det för första gången en systematisk kartläggning av sexuella övergrepp mot barn i…
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The term “subject” and its theoretical implications are essential to German tradition of socialpedagogy and social work. If we look back in history, there is a sharp contrast to the practices of social work, especially in the field of child and youth welfare. This applies to Switzerland, Germany and internationally. In Swiss history, objectification is most clearly expressed in the German term “Verdingkinder”, which terminologically indicates the active process of objectification (Ding = object). Informed by historical research, questions can be addressed to current practice of…
For centuries, residential child and youth care systems worldwide have provided homes for vulnerable children and adolescents. The implementation of children's rights, especially the right of participation, is assessed as an important base for promoting the best interests of the child in an out-of-home care environment.
Featuring contributions from distinguished international authors, this volume offers an in-depth understanding of crucial participation processes and underlying power structures when involving young people in decision-making about their care and everyday life in different…
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Research on institutional care and its long‐term effect on life trajectories provides crucial and sometimes unexpected insights. In a qualitative study in Switzerland, we have conducted 37 narrative interviews with people who experienced residential care between 1950 and 1990. The analysis was based on a reconstructive life course perspective and grounded theory. The findings show a complex interplay of residential care context (here: narratives from expert discourses) and intersubjective experiences during and after care. Most interviewees learned from their experiences to be…
Cet aide-mémoire énonce le rôle des autorités compétentes (administratives ou judiciaires) et les fonctions qui leur sont dévolues selon les bases légales applicables en matière de placement international d’enfants à des fins de protection. Il illustre tout particulièrement le fonctionnement et l’application de l’art. 33 de la Convention de La Haye de 1996 sur la protection des enfants et son articulation avec l’Ordonnance sur le placement d’enfants. Ces instruments prévoyant, à un moment ou à un autre, l’implication aussi bien des autorités civiles et/ou administratives que migratoires…
One of the most important goals of out of home placements is to reduce vulnerability and to enable well-being in the long term. This article hermeneutically reconstructs biographies decades after leaving-care to understand the impact of residential care experiences on selected dimensions of care-leavers’ well-being, that were discovered in the data material. For this article three analytic areas were selected from the core of the narratives of former care leavers: Social networks, parenthood and state interventions. The selected findings on long-term outcomes presented here are based on a…
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Although child welfare youth and juvenile offenders in residential care have different judicial placement reasons, there seems to be overlap in their demographic and psychosocial backgrounds. This could raise the question whether these adolescents should be placed in strictly separated institutions based on their judicial title (civil or criminal law) or together based on their needs. As systematic knowledge on the effects of shared placement of these groups is limited, the aim of the current paper is to examine the demographic, crime-related and psychosocial…
Le but de cette évaluation est d'identifier et de combler les lacunes existantes en ce qui concerne le droit à la santé et le droit à l’accouchement confidentiel. Il s’agit en particulier d’examiner leur mise en œuvre au sein des groupes vulnérables.