- We focus on that siblings will grow up together – Call Blad

- We focus on that siblings will grow up together – Call Blad

– On Ringerike we have a focus on that siblings will grow up together where it is best for the child and that this sibling relationship has a value in itself she says to Aftenposten.

SOS Children

This Christmas celebrates over 10,000 Norwegian children and youth festival in foster homes. A new survey shows that the majority of these must celebrate Christmas without their siblings, contrary to UN recommendations.

UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care states that siblings have the right to grow up together. Nevertheless distinguished as many as six out of ten foster children from their brothers and sisters in this country. It shows a survey conducted in 70 municipalities across the country of SOS Children’s Villages, writes Aftenposten.

Ringerike has worked for SOS Children’s Villages will establish themselves in the region, says Dalen said.

Challenging to find foster

The results are summarized with a survey conducted earlier this year by Norwegian Social Research (Nova). Where it emerged that executive officers and managers in child care are less concerned that siblings can be together, than the foster parents are, the newspaper said.

25 percent of foster parents thought it was important that siblings can be together, while only 9 percent of child welfare managers and executive officers thought the same, the survey shows.

Dalen admits it is a challenge to find a foster siblings. She says it is difficult to find foster homes that are suitable to accommodate siblings. But she also points out that all the children they are going to find foster homes to have needs that require more care than other children. Thus it becomes too big a task to take responsibility for more children for many foster parents.

Measures

In the Government’s declaration to Solberg government states that they want to implement measures “so that children under CPS care increasingly getting grow up with siblings.”

Children Minister Solveig Horne (FRP) shows that the government has initiated several measures since last fall, but admits that there is still a job to do. (© NTB)