- Vil ha ro om barnevernet (– Want quiet around Barnevernet)
Firda, 21 August 2016
Quite an enlightening article, showing Naustdal's municipality increasingly up as tragi-comical.
NAUSTDAL: Ordførar Håkon Myrvang (Ap) likar ikkje å få endå ei negativ mediesak om barnevernet.(The mayor Håkon Myrvang (the Labour Party) does not like having yet another negative media case about Barnevernet.)
So politicians and bureaucrats want peace and quiet. Quiet, so that people forget that Barnevernet in the district is a scandalous harm-doer, and so that the authorities can continue protecting Barnevernet and assert that Barnevernet does everything right and carry out "expert assessments".
The article in the ordinary web edition of Firda is blocked except to subscribers, but it is quite obvious that this is the case about the visiting home of Stein Mortensbakke and his wife, which Barnevernet no longer finds "suitable", cf above.
However, the article has turned up here, reason unknown:
Vil ha ro om barnevernetredir.opoint.comThe comedy is complete. Just listen to this:
"Politikarar og administrasjon har i utgangspunktet ulike roller. Sjølv om ordføraren er øvste leiar og ansvarleg for dei tilsette, er det ikkje vanleg å blande seg i sakshandsaminga."(Politicians and administration have basically different roles. Even if the mayor is the top leader and is responsible for the employees, it is not usual [for him] to meddle in cae procedure.)
What, then, if a case is unusual? – – Ah no, I forgot: Naustdal Barnevern ARE on their usual behaviour all the time, the behaviour which is also the usual one for Norwegian Barnevern nationally.
"Det er heller ikkje mi oppgåve å seie om eg er nøgd eller misnøgd med sakshandsaminga."(Nor is it my job to say whether I am satisfied or disstisfied with the case treatment.)
One must suppose, then, that the job of politicians and administrators is only to defend their employees Barnevernet and dismiss all complaints against them. In other words, the employer is completely irresponsible. The only thing a citizen can do when subject to crazy actions, is to go to court. The result of that, however, we know not to function at all; it takes endless time, while Barnevernet has the power over the children, it takes endless time for the family to prepare the ground for such a court case, the expense is far above what people can manage. And even if one were, in a rare instance, to win, the preacical consequences are more or less nil.
"– Barnevernet inngår avtalar med ulike besøksheimar, og eg verken kan eller vil kommentere enkeltsaker. Men eg likar ikkje at vi får ein ny negativ debatt om barnevernet i ei sak verken eg eller media har inngåande kjennskap til. Alle partar bør no konsentrere seg om å skape ro kring ei viktig teneste, som er etablert for å sjå til at alle barn får gode oppvekstvilkår."(– Barnevernet enters into agreement with different visiting homes, and I neither can nor will I comment on individual cases. But I do not like having a new, negative debate about Barnevernet in a case which neither I nor the media have thorough insight into. All parties should now concentrate on creating peace and quiet around an important service, which has been established to see to it that all children get good conditions around their lives.)
In other words: The mayor DOES NOT WANT to know anything. At the same time his opinion is that everybody should shut up about everything he does not know anything about!
"– Etter så mykje negativ merksemd, er det aktuelt for politikarane å ta ein gjennomgang av barnevernstenesta, til dømes be om tilsyn frå Fylkesmannen?
– Dette er ikkje vurdert.
– Vil de ta ei slik vurdering?
– Nei."(– After so much negative attention, is it in the pipeline for the politicians to do a whole evaluation of the Barnevern service, for instance to ask for monitoring from the County Governor?
– This har not been considered.
– Will you consider it?
– No.)
Best to shut the eyes firmly.
Probably this is what is known as the "internal control" of the municipalities.