The union warns that the so-called Sis homes where young people are being forcibly cared for are increasingly beginning to resemble prisons and demand that care be improved. A recent survey among Seko’s members shows large understaffing and more than half answer that they have been threatened at work during the past year.
– It becomes like a pressure cooker when you store people in a place without the opportunity to care, says Seko’s chairman Gabriella Lavecchia.
In the survey, 60 per cent state that they are understaffed daily or weekly, and as many as 85 per cent say that mental illness has increased among young people in recent years.
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The state authority The National Board of Institutions (Sis) is responsible for individually adapted compulsory care. Sis receives young people with serious psychosocial problems, adults with substance abuse problems and young people who have been sentenced to closed youth care.
The authority has 21 special youth homes with just over 700 places and eleven LVM homes with almost 400 places for the care of adult addicts. The institutions are located all over the country. The head of the authority is Director General Elisabet Åbjörnsson Hollmark.
Source: Sis