Adoptive parents "repented" - returned children after 1.5 years

9 March 2021

Two parents in a Småland municipality received an adopted child from abroad.

One and a half years later, they "repented" and returned the child, who was of preschool age, to the country of origin. It reports the news agency Siren.

Now a social secretary wants the health and care inspectorate, Ivo, to answer how the municipality should act.

The Social Welfare Board must have been in contact with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA), which must have issued directives on the care of the child.

As the child is already abroad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must have told the municipality that the "implementation of the decision" should go through them, through a so-called "request for enforcement".

The social secretary wants Ivo to "bring clarity to the question" of what should be done and by whom.

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