Men problemet är att man aldrig har facit i handen : Några socialsekreterares uppfattningar om deras arbete med barn och ungdomar

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The opinion of social workers towards their work with children and young persons wasstudied in this essay. Even their point of view with reference to the term the child’s bestinterest has being considered and special focus was laid on the social workers attitudestowards media coverage and its criticism towards their work. A qualitative approach was usedconsisted of six interviews. The theoretical frameworks were based on the theory aboutfreedom of action and the theory of social representations. Our result showed that almost allof the interviewees felt a relatively high freedom of action in their work within the frameworkof the law and other policies and that despite the difficulties this can imply, they still enjoyworking with this target group. Concerning the term the child’s best interest, all ofinterviewees said that it is very good that it exists but that it is also difficult to define since itdepends on who...