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full screen The so-called register extract for teachers is to be expanded. Genre picture. Photo: Gorm Kallestad/NTB/TT
More crimes are to be covered when teachers are checked before employment, according to the government.
– We want a broad review to be carried out. The school is a hunting ground for recruiting to the gangs, says Labor Market and Integration Minister Johan Pehrson (L).
The government appoints an investigation to review whether more crimes should be added to the so-called register extract that must be made when someone is employed at the school. The investigation must be completed by the end of the year. Already after the summer, on August 1, however, the government wants to change the rules so that the involvement of minors in crime and violations of the Terrorist Crimes Act must be included in the register extract.
– These rules were created primarily to protect students from pedophiles and sex offenders. We now see that crime in society in general has changed in many ways in recent years, says Johan Pehrson.
How is it that this type of internal crime is already included in the extract that is made for those who, for example, want to become a teacher?
– Probably because it was not previously seen that this has been such an extensive problem. We have a separatist extremism that has grown and many young people are being recruited into the gangs. We want to stop this.
Why isn’t everything visible when doing this type of check?
– Surely it is not the idea that people who have driven too fast at some point should not be allowed to work at school.
FACTS Register extract
Anyone who wants employment in a preschool, elementary school or upper secondary school must be able to show an extract from the criminal record (criminal record), a so-called register extract. The registry check is mandatory.
The Act on record checks for school personnel was introduced on 1 January 2001.
The purpose of register control is to protect children and young people against sexual offenses and other serious crimes.
The excerpt contains information about sexual crimes and child pornography crimes, as well as murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, kidnapping and aggravated robbery.
The requirement to present register extracts also applies to other services.
Source: Swedish National Agency for Education and the Swedish Police Agency
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