– Ranging from the Un population’s expectations, torturkomité and the committee has given the Uk criticism for that service provision to this group of children and young people are not good enough.
It believes the head of department in save the Children, Thale Skybak. She describes the situation as an unfair discrimination of children.
if you come to Norway as asylum seeker alone, without parents or family and are under the age of 15, is it child welfare authorities that stand for the omsorgsansvaret. This is also the case for Norwegian children up to the age of 18 years.
This applies however not for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers over 15 years. They receive care services from the Norwegian directorate of Immigration (UDI).
the Government believes that the scheme works, and wish that the practice should now be English law. At the same time thinks more of those who work with this group of asylum seekers that it is a bad idea.
Skybak in save the Children says it is well documented that the current scheme shows that it is not enough barnefaglig expertise to handle omsorgstjenesten for this group of children and young people.
– They miss a voksenperson, care and to organize good activities. Several of them also say that they lack so basic needs such as food and clothing.
Head of save the Children, Thale Skybak, says that asylum-seekers between 15 and 18 years are missing both enough adults on the job and regulated supervision in the reception centre they live in.
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In 2015 and 2016 there came a record number of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers to Norway. Several have gone out with his story and tells about his brutal start in Norway.
Many of the asylum seekers who come here have experienced traumatic things and may have challenges with to relate to both persons and institutions.
This has led to several serious incidents. In 2018 was a minor asylum seeker it ” for the killing of two other asylum seekers in Trondheim, and in 2015, 12 young asylum seekers charged after the riot at asylmottaket they lived on.
as of today, there are 40 unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway. They are divided into two reception, Sjøvegan reception and Mysebu transit center.
Sjøvegan reception in the Troms has almost 30 years of experience with this group of young. They see clear tendencies to a high help and nursing care among the young people at the reception.
Shelter believe the draft bill makes provision to ensure that there shall not be any specific requirements to manning and competence at the reception centre. Therefore, they are critical to the proposed amendment.
the Reception centre for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers at Sjøvegan has nearly 30 years of experience in working with this group of children and young people.
Photo: Jenny Sorensen Myrvoll
– We disagree in that it should not be forskriftsfestes a norm for special staffing and expertise. We are afraid that this may create inequities, and inexcusable low quality at the reception centre for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers. Work with unaccompanied minors is a very complex group, with many different needs, they may write in their responses received can be seen to the department of Justice.
Furthermore write the receipt that they mostly learn that child welfare authorities do not take over the care of the underage asylum seekers who need help.
In the site provides child protection advice and guidance to the reception. Thus, it is the reception that is sitting with most of the responsibility for asylum seekers.
the Reason they believe may be linked to the high economic costs of such measures vertskommunen.
Other authorities believe the child should get a clearer responsibility for the unaccompanied minor asylum seekers.
– We can not be a such a society
Psykologspesialist, Heidi Wittrup Depth, working with children and adults who are affected by grief, trauma and crises.
She refers to the research and experience that show that children under The care have more mental health problems than the unaccompanied minors who receive care from child welfare.
It tells something about the importance of services for these children, she believes.
– They have a higher level of post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression that lasts over time. They are a very vulnerable group, we know that.
Krisepsykolog Heidi Wittrup Deep says that the scheme of the UDI has been criticized for a number of years, and that we accept discrimination of children if the scheme is statutory.
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She believes without a doubt, that Norway discriminate against a group of children and young people when they are placed under The care rather than child welfare.
– It is a practice I believe is very serious. I am quite sure that to discriminate against children and to accept that a specific group of children receive less care, will not be good for our community. It will damage not only they, but also us. We can not be a such a society.
Also the spokesperson for the ombudsman, Anders Cameron, believes that the offer is not good enough. He believes that the best had been to legislate an offer of the same quality as other children in Norway to receive.
– improving the child welfare and have this group in there will be the easiest way to get an equal and good offer for them.
Ignores Un recommendations
the UNHCR, which is the Un refugee agency agree in the criticism of the current scheme. This is children who come alone, who have lost or been separated from his family. They need sufficient care and assistance.
UNCHR writes in an e-mail to NRK:
We have repeatedly, and on several occasions asked Norway to place the responsibility for all unaccompanied minor asylum seekers under the age of 18 years at barnevernstjenesten.
the Committee on the rights of the child and the committee against torture has asked Norway about the same.
UDI positive to lovfestingen
Assistant fagsjef in mottaksavdelingen in UDI, Heidi Vibeke Pedersen, believes that the UDI upholds the responsibility for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers over 15 years in a good way.
She tells us that the UDI in recent years has done much to improve the situation on their receipt.
– Among other things, we have increased the barnefaglige staffing levels and completed many different courses and training initiatives for the employees. And we now have much higher staffing levels in reception than before.
On the criticism from save the Children that this is a discrimination of the children, she says that the arrangements are a little different.
Discrimination could, one might say, it is BUFETAT is responsible for the omsorgssentrene and so it is the UDI that has the responsibility for the over 15 years. It is very important that the Norwegian barnevernslov applies to all children who stay in Norway anyway. It is not so that young in our reception has fewer rights after barnevernsloven than the other.
Pedersen says that they use research actively in its follow-up, and that they follow the recommendations from the FAFO report “A safe place to wait”.
the UDI has noticed that the older groups of children and young people often have multiple trauma and hardship, but they believe that reception centres have good enough skills to handle it.
– It is quite clear that this is youth who have needed a lot of follow-up, and as we have spent a lot of resources to try to ease the situation within the framework that we have.
the department of Justice will not comment on the case when høringsfristen went out 6. march. The case is now to the treatment in the ministry.
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