2025-03-202024/25:SoU19 · p.9SoUHealth & social services

Follow-up and support after placement

Follow-up on children's situation after placement in foster homes

What's at stake: The issue concerns children and young people placed outside their own home, and whether society has sufficient knowledge of and control over the quality and suitability of these placements.

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

What the vote decides

Parliament considered whether a dedicated national follow-up of how many children are placed in the same foster home, and of children's situation after placement, is needed, or whether ongoing supervision and quality work in foster-home and residential care is already sufficient.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The committee notes that extensive work is already under way to strengthen the quality of foster-home and residential care, including the government's intention to proceed with proposals to improve the content and quality of out-of-home care, an assignment to a national coordinator for more high-quality care places, and agency assignments to increase knowledge about reinforced foster homes and treatment families and to improve conditions for more placements in such homes. The committee also notes that the Health and Social Care Inspectorate has been tasked with strengthening supervision of residential homes for children and young people, and takes a positive view of ongoing inquiries into supervision and into safety and security in residential care. In light of this ongoing work, the committee considers there is no reason for parliament to take further initiatives and rejects the motion for a national follow-up.

No No — the reservations

Reservation 13 (SD)

SD argues that the government should take the initiative for a national follow-up of how many children are placed in the same foster home, since there is a risk that social services are unable to ensure that the placement is suitable for the child.

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 13 by SD.

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	–	Abstain 0/0/16/8
S	–	Yes 92/0/0/14
MP	–	Abstain 0/0/15/3
C	–	Yes 20/0/0/4
L	–	Yes 9/0/0/7
KD	–	Yes 16/0/0/3
M	–	Yes 59/0/0/9
SDown reservation	–	No 0/62/0/10

Committee proposal

The Riksdag rejects the motions 2024/25:1140 by Marléne Lund Kopparklint (M), 2024/25:1366 by Carina Ståhl Herrstedt et al. (SD) amendment 10, and 2024/25:1905 by Karin Rågsjö et al. (V) amendment 24.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår motionerna 2024/25:1140 av Marléne Lund Kopparklint (M), 2024/25:1366 av Carina Ståhl Herrstedt m.fl. (SD) yrkande 10 och 2024/25:1905 av Karin Rågsjö m.fl. (V) yrkande 24.

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 legal consequences for not adhering to written agreements about custody, residence and care. (SD) — Reservation 13

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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