March 18, 2010
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The following articles have been tagged with "Children\'s_ombudsman":
Swedish children ignorant of their rights
Society: 30 Mar 08
The Swedish children's ombudsman, Lena Nyberg, has called for a state campaign to inform schoolchildren of their rights; one of the suggestions in a new government report.
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Mentally ill children locked up with violent adults
Society: 2 Feb 08
Mentally ill children are being systematically locked up with violent adults. In breach of UN conventions, argues children's ombudsman Lena Nyberg.
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Parents 'allowed to smack children'
Society: 15 Nov 07
Swedish parents are allowed to smack their children, as long as they do not hit them too hard, a ruling from a court in southern Sweden appears to show.
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'Carry out criminal checks on youth leaders'
Society: 19 Jul 07
The head of Sweden's Scout movement has called for volunteers who want to work with children to be subjected to criminal record checks. Children must be protected from paedophiles who try to infiltrate youth groups, he argued.
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Increased psychological problems for small children
Science & Technology: 20 Mar 07
A new report from the Children's Ombudsman has shown that more children than ever before are failing to derive a sense of security from their parents. More needs to be done to help families with 'psychological and psychosocial problems'.
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'Swedish only' at Landskrona school
Society: 20 Jan 07
A school in the southern town of Landskrona is to be the first to introduce a ban on languages other than Swedish on school premises.
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New child abuse commission after Bobby death
National: 5 May 06
The Swedish government is to set up a new commission to investigate when children die after being abused. The minister in charge has named it 'Bobby's Law' after a ten-year old boy from Småland.
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Children's ombudsman slams school environment
Society: 21 Feb 06
Adults would never accept the dirty toilets and rowdy dining halls in some of Sweden's schools - so why should children? Children's Ombudsman Lena Nyberg says working conditions laws should apply to schools too.
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Physical punishment increasing in Sweden
Society: 2 Jan 06
Despite the fact that it has been illegal for over 25 years, the punishment of children using force is increasing in Sweden, says Children's Ombudsman Lena Nyberg.
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Deportation of "apathetic children" put on hold
National: 1 May 05
The Swedish Migration Board freezes all deportations of the so-called "apathetic refugee children", who are suffering from a form of acute depression, after a report suggests that the phenomenon is unique to Sweden. Not true, say critics.
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Schools learn cost of bullying
Society: 30 Apr 04
Bullied pupils are to get compensation, while vandalism cost Gothenburg schools SEK 21 million last year.
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Day 22 – A Mongolian St. Paddy’s Day »
"During my misspent ‘yoof’ when I should have been learning Irish and French we used to quip the most random place you could be sent was outer Mongolia. Yesterday on the day my patron saint and namesake was being celebrated I found myself breaking bread with a classmate who hails from the country which has..." READ »
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