Parliament Majority for a Lex Little Heart
Parliament Majority for a Lex Little Heart
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PUBLISHED: THU 09 APR 2020
UPDATED: THU 09 APR 2020
Social Committee Chairman Acko Ankarberg Johansson (KD) says that Parliament is taking a step forward for a law that will strengthen the rights of foster children, a lex Lilla hartt. Stock Photography.
A foster home-placed child should be given greater rights than today. Stock Photography.
Moderate party leader Ulf Kristersson.
Social Committee Chairman Acko Ankarberg Johansson (KD) says that Parliament is taking a step forward for a law that will strengthen the rights of foster children, a lex Lilla hartt. Stock Photography.
A foster home-placed child should be given greater rights than today. Stock Photography.
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A foster home-placed child should be given greater rights than today. Stock Photography.
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A child should not be able to snatch from their foster parents anyway.
The Riksdag must now, without waiting for the government, try to change the law so that the foster child's need for stability weighs heavier when deciding on their future.
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The stance has been hastened by an attention-grabbing case where a little girl, referred to as "Little Heart", after several years in the foster family was sent back to the biological parents and died. The mother is suspected of crime.
- The child's own need for long-term and stability, for example, having rooted in a foster family, should weigh heavier and that the biological family's automatic right to get the child back should weigh slightly easier, says moderator Ulf Kristersson about the meaning of it as a majority in Parliament's social committee now wants to implement.
- We can call it lex Little Heart, simply, says Acko Ankarberg Johansson, Chairman (KD) of the Social Committee.
She says that it is very good that the parliament now supports a line that the Christian Democrats since 2015 have put motions on.
More ground
The majority of the committee, which says that Parliament should now draft legislation directly, consists of the four bourgeois, former Alliance parties, the Swedish Democrats and the Left Party. Acko Ankarberg Johansson describes the government's attitude that it also wants to make changes, but at its own pace.
Social Minister Lena Hallengren (S) says that for her it is hardly a competition for who can come first. She says the government has long been preparing a law change but that more evidence is needed for it to be good. It is, in this case, a less good idea that Parliament legislates on its own. And it is not so easy, she argues, to simply introduce the changes proposed by an investigation in 2015.
- If the best of the children are to be interpreted in the way that I, and from which I assume, even the Riksdag's parties want, then we need more evidence, says Lena Hallengren, who does not dare to assess how long it would take to collect what is missing.
First step
Ulf Kristersson argues that Parliament's position is the first step in decades that are moving in the right direction.
- We have been researching Swedish foster children for decades, we know that they do not have stability, that they jump between different families and no one has done anything.
Kristersson says that the Riksdag will now establish a law based on the investigation that came in 2015 and which Kristersson as responsible minister appointed during the alliance period.
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