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Institutioner för ensamkommande barn: – hur kan man förstå en snabbt expanderande och turbulent vård- och omsorgsmarknad? [Residential care for unaccompanied minors. How can a growing and turbulent care market be understood?]
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1876-0353
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work.
2018 (Swedish)In: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, ISSN 1104-1420, E-ISSN 2003-5624, Vol. 25, no 3-4, p. 211-229Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The number of unaccompanied minors arriving in Sweden has grown rapidly in recent years and the care of these children has become a significant part of the Swedish child welfare system. In this article, we discuss what has happened to the residential care market (known as HVB for short) in which most of these children are placed by the municipal social services. The specific questions we seek to illuminate are: Which type of residential care actors have expanded their operations? Have new actors entered the residential care market for unaccompanied minors? How can we understand changes in the residential care market in the current situation? The study is based upon the Health and Social Care Inspectorate’s registry of all licensed residential care units in Sweden. We compare data for all residential care units that targeted unaccompanied minors in 2014 with an updated register from March 2016. The residential care units are categorized based on organizational type (municipal, large and small private companies, municipal entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations) and the article illustrates the composition of organizational type. The results show that despite the growing need for residential care for unaccompanied minors, the composition of organizational type has not changed significantly since 2014. However, the number of beds for unaccompanied minors is higher than for traditional HVBs, and it has increased between 2014 and 2016. The study also indicates that the composition of residential care for unaccompanied minors differs from the residential care market for other groups of children and young people. 

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2018. Vol. 25, no 3-4, p. 211-229
Keywords [en]
residental care, unaccompanied minor
Keywords [sv]
ensamkommande, institutioner
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Social Work
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Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-197554DOI: 10.3384/svt.2018.25.3-4.2364OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-197554DiVA, id: diva2:1601004
Available from: 2021-10-06 Created: 2021-10-06 Last updated: 2022-05-10Bibliographically approved

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