The LSS accommodation is for children and young people with intellectual disabilities, and is run by an anthroposophical foundation in Järna – which runs several activities in the area.
The foundation’s accommodation has been inspected by IVO several times in recent years. Criticism has previously been directed at the specific accommodation. Now IVO makes the overall assessment that there are several serious irregularities and that the accommodation’s measures have not had an effect. IVO believes that the operation cannot therefore ensure the children’s health and personal safety.
Hospital staff raised the alarm
On repeated occasions the children must have been violent towards each other, where punching and biting occurred according to IVO’s decision.
A five-year-old child is said to have brought staff from the accommodation with him during a hospital visit, who the hospital staff felt acted so recklessly that the incident was reported. The healthcare staff must also have discovered lacerations on the child and therefore did not want to send the child back to the accommodation. But the accompanying staff left the hospital with the child, who was then half-naked and had a venous catheter still in his arm.
Untrained staff
IVO also states that there are extensive deficiencies in the staff’s competence, with the majority lacking a high school education.
In an SMS to SVT’s reporter, Mora Park board chairman Rasmus Thomsen writes:
“We have an ongoing decommissioning of Mora Strand with the best interests of the children at the center and in consultation with the local municipalities. We chose to ask for the permit to be suspended after the incident, but IVO did not consider it sufficient as the matter had been ongoing for some time, unfortunately.”
“We have not been able to accommodate a sufficient number of qualified employees with sufficient competence to ensure good quality. The board has worked strategically with quality-enhancing work and needs to accept the consequences of not having reached the end of the house in question.”