Have you felt threatened because of the LVU campaign? Mission review sent with the question in a survey that the union Akademikerförbundet SSR conducted with social secretaries.
Of 474 social workers, who stated that they work in a vulnerable area, more than one in three answered that they felt threatened.
A social worker who wishes to remain anonymous talks about death threats and threats to harm her children.
– To go alone, I didn’t do that. I drove and picked up my children from school, wanted to know where they were all the time, says the woman who wore a personal alarm during periods when she was exposed.
She is not alone in being affected. Assignment review finds over 50 social workers who have been posted with names and sometimes also addresses in social media.
– It is a terrible thing to be exposed to, says Viktoriya Levin, chairwoman of the union Vision in Gothenburg.
Threats to social welfare offices
When a social worker is threatened, there are procedures to deal with it. Among other things, a police report must be made, and it is then reviewed whether the victim needs to work at home or elsewhere, says Levin. To a greater extent, the threats have been directed from individuals to specific social welfare offices.
– It is problematic in that you are talking about a whole lot of social workers who to a certain extent are all at risk of getting hurt.
See more in the Mission review series “They take our children” – Wednesday March 6 on SVT Play.