Research project Children's rights and evidence based care

In recent years, the requirement that children's rights must be met in all social care has become evident in legislation and in courts. In this study, this requirement will be analyzed in relation to another contemporary development trend: growing demands for an evidence-based care.  The question is how the individual-based rights perspective relates to the thoughts and principles on which evidence-based care is based, where group-based results from effect studies and specific treatment methods (more or less standardized) play a prominent role. We investigate this question by studying care conducted by the Swedish National Board of Institutional care (SiS). SiS activities are disputed, not least for the compulsory measures that they have at their disposal. The purpose of the project is to analyze what the increased requirements to consider children's individual rights can entail in a compulsory care context where evidence-based methods are given great value. We want to study how children's rights and evidence-based care are reflected in the daily care and how they potentially may conflict.