Lørdag viste BBC dokumentaren «Norway's Silent Scandal» om det norske barnevernet
Barne- og likestillingsminister Linda Hofstad Helleland hadde ikke anledning til å gi BBC intervju «i denne omgang», skriver departementets kommunikasjonsavdeling i en epost til Dagbladet. https://www.medier24.no/artikler/lordag-viste-bbc-dokumentaren-norway-s-silent-scandal-om-det-norske-barnevernet/443013 og BBC med dokumentar om norsk barnevern https://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/norge/2018/08/05/195421208/bbc-med-dokumentar-om-norsk-barnevern og Barneminister Linda Hofstad Helleland ville ikke kommentere BBC-dokumentar om norsk barnevern https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/utenriks/barneminister-linda-hofstad-helleland-ville-ikke-kommentere-bbc-dokumentar-om-norsk-barnevern/3423521573.html
In April this year a highly respected Norwegian child psychiatrist was convicted of downloading thousands of images of child pornography. The psychiatrist had been used as an expert, until his arrest, by Norway's controversial child protection system and was involved in decisions about whether children should be removed from their parents.
Campaigners in Norway have long accused the system of removing children from their parents without justification and now, despite the serious nature of this man's offence, the authorities are refusing to review the child protection cases he gave evidence in. For Our World Tim Whewell has been to Norway to try to discover why child protection in one of the world's wealthiest countries appears to be in crisis.
The conviction of a prominent expert in Norway's troubled child protection system - for downloading images of child sex abuse - has put the organisation under scrutiny once again.
In April this year a child psychiatrist was convicted of downloading thousands of the images on his computer. Up until his arrest he played a key role in decisions about whether children should be separated from their parents for their own good.
But there has been no public discussion in Norway about the implications of his conviction, no outrage in the newspapers, no plans to review cases he was involved in - even though the country's child protection agency, Barnevernet, has been much criticised in recent years for removing children from their families without justification.
In April 2016 Tim Whewell reported on the story for Crossing Continents after Barnevernet attracted an international storm of protest over its child protection policies. Tim now returns to Norway to report on this extraordinary twist in the story and to find out why child protection in one of the world's wealthiest countries appears to be in crisis.
This programme contains adult themes.
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