2025-03-202024/25:SoU19 · p.12SoUHealth & social services

Support persons and support organizations for children, etc.

A children's rights committee and expanded powers for the Children's Ombudsman

What's at stake: A children's rights committee and a Children's Ombudsman empowered to pursue its own cases could give children whose rights have been violated stronger protection and a more coordinated handling of children's rights issues, compared with today's agency mandates and follow-up within existing frameworks.

Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.

What the vote decides

The question is whether the government should set up a special children's rights committee and give the Children's Ombudsman the power to pursue its own cases, or whether the ongoing work to strengthen children's rights within existing structures should be considered sufficient.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The committee shares the government's assessment that there is a continued need for strategic and systematic work on children's rights, but points to ongoing agency mandates - including method support, knowledge-sharing and a web-based information space for children with complaints - as well as a review of work on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and concludes overall that a special children's rights committee or expanded powers for the Children's Ombudsman are not needed. The committee recommends rejecting the motions.

No No — the reservations

Reservation 19 (C, MP)

The reservation holds that the government should set up a children's rights committee that can take a comprehensive approach to children's rights issues and identify which areas need reform, and that the Children's Ombudsman should be given the power to pursue its own cases so that children whose rights have been violated can obtain redress.

Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.

V–

S–

MP–

C–

L–

KD–

M–

SD–

YesNoAbstainAbsent

What do the votes mean here?

Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).

No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 19 by C, MP.

Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.

The plan's stance / Actual vote

	AI	Vote
V	–	Yes 16/0/0/8
S	–	Yes 92/0/0/14
MPown reservation	–	No 0/15/0/3
Cown reservation	–	No 0/20/0/4
L	–	Yes 9/0/0/7
KD	–	Yes 16/0/0/3
M	–	Yes 59/0/0/9
SD	–	Abstain 0/0/62/10

Committee proposal

The Riksdag rejects the motions 2024/25:1078 by Marléne Lund Kopparklint (M) amendment 3, 2024/25:1366 by Carina Ståhl Herrstedt et al. (SD) amendment 17, and 2024/25:2951 by Martina Johansson et al. (C) amendments 1 and 38.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår motionerna 2024/25:1078 av Marléne Lund Kopparklint (M) yrkande 3, 2024/25:1366 av Carina Ståhl Herrstedt m.fl. (SD) yrkande 17 och 2024/25:2951 av Martina Johansson m.fl. (C) yrkandena 1 och 38.

Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected approximately 90 proposals in motions about children and young people in social services. The motions were submitted during the general motion period of 2024 and address, among other things, interventions for children and young people, placement forms for children and young people, and children's rights. The Riksdag refers primarily to work already underway in the areas addressed by the proposals.

Counter-proposals

The counter-proposal wants to increase collaboration between schools, social services, and healthcare to identify vulnerable children. (C, MP) — Reservation 19

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Sources and documents

The committee report on riksdagen.se (2024/25:SoU19)
Committee report full text (HC01SoU19)
Per-MP voting data (API)
Case status (API)

Documents under consideration

Motion 2024/25:1021 — Nolltolerans mot barnsoldater i Sverige av Kerstin Lundgren (C)
Motion 2024/25:1078 — Uppföljning av riskbedömningar i vårdnadsmål och utvärdering av barnkonventionens införande av Marléne Lund Kopparklint (M)
Motion 2024/25:1110 — Barns rättigheter vid familjehemsplaceringar av Marléne Lund Kopparklint (M)
Motion 2024/25:1140 — Ersättning till barn som farit illa av Marléne Lund Kopparklint (M)
Motion 2024/25:1296 — Återförening mellan barn och föräldrar som förlorat kontakten efter vårdnadstvister av Runar Filper och Angelica Lundberg (båda SD)
Motion 2024/25:1361 — En stark och kvalitativ Sis-vård i hela landet av Mona Olin m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1366 — Socialtjänsten av Carina Ståhl Herrstedt m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1389 — Familjerätt av Mikael Eskilandersson m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1413 — Krafttag mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck av Sara Gille m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1495 — Befogenheter för SOS Alarm vid nödsituationer av Marléne Lund Kopparklint (M)
Motion 2024/25:1671 — Nationell handlingsplan mot barnfattigdom av Aida Birinxhiku och Sofia Skönnbrink (båda S)
Motion 2024/25:1834 — Obligatorisk BVC av Jennie Wernäng m.fl. (M)
Motion 2024/25:1905 — En starkare folkhälsa av Karin Rågsjö m.fl. (V)
Motion 2024/25:197 — Ofrivilligt faderskap av Nima Gholam Ali Pour (SD)
Motion 2024/25:2059 — Stärkt kamp mot sexuellt utnyttjande av barn av Niels Paarup-Petersen (C)
Motion 2024/25:2062 — Hederskultur ska aldrig accepteras av Ann-Sofie Alm (M)
Motion 2024/25:2172 — Stärkt vård och behandling för unga av Eva Lindh m.fl. (S)
Motion 2024/25:2185 — Barnförsäkring av Amalia Rud Stenlöf och Gunilla Carlsson (båda S)
Motion 2024/25:2196 — Placeringar på Sis av Johanna Rantsi och Sten Bergheden (båda M)
Motion 2024/25:2198 — Nationellt register för behandlings- och familjehem av Johanna Rantsi (M)

Source: The Swedish Parliament