Lina Ponnert

Lund University | LU

Sweden’s child welfare services are characterised by intra-organisational specialisation and collaboration with Barnahus as a standard procedure in cases of child abuse. This chapter examines what happens with social workers’ risk assessments when they are both filtered internally at different units and in relation to Barnahus and a criminal law-or...

Every year, over 1,000 children and young people, between the ages of 8 and 20, are placed in special youth homes in Sweden due to criminality, substance abuse or ”other socially destructive behaviour”. This article is based on interviews with youth and staff about what happens at the institution and how they regard the purpose of the stay in a fac...

Between legal regulations and professional logic - dealing with reports of violence in child protectionThis article analyses and discusses social workers’ perspectives on dealing with referrals concerning suspected violence and abuse in child protection within a legal setting guided by mandatory reports and mandatory child welfare investigations wh...

This article analyses Swedish social workers’ accounts of custody when a parent is in remand prison or prison due to homicidal violence that has resulted in the death of the other parent. How do social workers justify or excuse assessments of custody and custody transfers? What legal dilemmas can be discerned? The empirical material comprises six g...

The aim of this article was to develop the understanding of discretion in compulsory care for youth and the influence of emotional aspects in developing a collective discretionary practice. The empirical material consists of group interviews with staff at these institutions. The theoretical concepts of emotional labour and emotional energy are used...

Research report, in Swedish, available: https://www.stat-inst.se/contentassets/b37ad59371de454c8111019d2994631f/1-2020-sis-rapport-akutavdelningar-pa-sarskilda-ungdomshem.pdf

The aim of this article is to analyse juridification and standardisation as two legal dimensions influencing contemporary child-protection work, and to discuss its implications for practice. We provide a framework for how the concepts of juridification and standardisation might be understood and analytically differentiated, drawing on theoretical d...

In this paper, social workers' ideas of kinship care and non-kinship care as foster placement alternatives for vulnerable children are analysed and discussed. The study is based on group interviews with Swedish social workers, using a discourse analytic approach. The interviews took two vignettes of children who needed an immediate and long-term pl...

För att leva upp till kravet på en evidensbaserad praktik använder organisationer alltmer manualbaserade program. I den här artikeln analyseras och diskuteras sprid- ningen och återinbäddningen av ett sådant program ur ett organisationsteoretiskt perspektiv med fält, program och personal i fokus.

This article analyses and discusses standardisation in human service organisations and its implications for professionals and for professionalism in social work. The theoretical framework derives from neo-institutional theory and theories regarding professionalism. By highlighting the role of professionals within a field influenced by organisationa...

We report a five-nations project in comparative child protection to provide recommendations on policy and practice to inform the redevelopment of the Swiss child protection system. The Swiss Federal Government and the Optimus and Oak Foundations commissioned the project—collective title: Association Programme National pour la Protection de l’Enfant...

This paper concerns the issue about juvenile delinquency and how social problems are constructed. The purpose has been to explore the debate about juvenile delinquency in Denmark and Sweden with the following sub-questions; which possibilities does the legislation give to put young people in institutional care by force? What problems are debated ab...