Eslöv is under review – after the case with the poisoned girl

The then six-year-old girl was freezing cold and her stomach was destroyed by vinegar when she appeared at the children’s intensive care unit in Lund on the night of Christmas Eve last year.

Now the Inspectorate for Care and Care (Ivo) is starting an inspection of Eslöv municipality, reports P4 Malmöhus.

Previously, Ivo stated that the case should be reviewed in order to possibly make a decision on whether an inspection should be initiated – and now the decision has been made.

More precisely, the supervision applies to the municipality’s social committee. The authority is to investigate in particular how the committee dealt with reports of concern, protection assessment, preliminary assessment and investigation of child cases, the radio reports.

Social services have previously been alerted several times that something was not right in the family – but nothing happened, according to a previous review by HD and Sydsvenskan. Several different community agencies and one private person must have alerted the social services in the Scanian municipality on at least four occasions.

A freelance social worker – who in the fall of 2022 was overloaded with 20 cases – was hired to handle the reports of concern that came in regarding the girl.

But notes about the girl’s case ended up in a mailbox in Eslöv’s municipal building just days before the girl, on the eve of Christmas last year, was taken to the hospital.

Jörgen Larsson, head of administration for the Children and Education Administration in Eslöv, has previously stated to TT that there was contact between the school and parents, even though the girl was kept at home from preschool class.

– And they have worked with various efforts to be able to solve it. We have done everything we can, he told TT just over a week ago.