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StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 23/08/2025 15:24

BabyCatFace · 23/08/2025 14:53

I assume these tests are used as part of parenting assessments where court proceedings have been issued or there are serious concerns about the child's safety and welfare already? They sound nonsensical from my perspective as a SW in the UK but the way they are reported seems to suggest they are being indiscriminately applied to parents rather than only where there are parenting concerns?

Yes they are a part of what I think you call a section 47? The assessment that establishes what if any intervention is needed.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 15:26

How many women, who couldn't get press attention, have they done this to?

Disgusting.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 23/08/2025 15:27

mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 15:26

How many women, who couldn't get press attention, have they done this to?

Disgusting.

The law was changed because of press attention.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 23/08/2025 15:29

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 23/08/2025 15:27

The law was changed because of press attention.

And that's a great thing - but theyre still at it

This woman cant be the only one 🥺

Shayisgreat · 23/08/2025 15:44

I'd say there are probably significant concerns about her parenting capacity and that the authorities took the inappropriate route of assessing that without taking the cultural context into account sufficiently.

They workers involved probably weren't advised properly and didn't do their due diligence by practising in a culturally competent way.

I don't know the Danish system at all so I don't know the processes involved in removing children from parents but surely there is legal oversight?

MaidOfSteel · 23/08/2025 15:45

I’m trying to understand the use of these tests. Do, or did, the Danish authorities only administer them to people from the Faroe Islands & Greenland? Or were the times they were used on their own indigenous population?

I’ve been quite shocked at what I’ve read about Denmark and the Scandinavian nations on this thread. I don’t mind admitting it.

BabyCatFace · 23/08/2025 15:47

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 23/08/2025 15:24

Yes they are a part of what I think you call a section 47? The assessment that establishes what if any intervention is needed.

So a very early intervention? And one that wouldn't form the basis of a decision whether to remove a child?

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 23/08/2025 15:56

MaidOfSteel · 23/08/2025 15:45

I’m trying to understand the use of these tests. Do, or did, the Danish authorities only administer them to people from the Faroe Islands & Greenland? Or were the times they were used on their own indigenous population?

I’ve been quite shocked at what I’ve read about Denmark and the Scandinavian nations on this thread. I don’t mind admitting it.

They can be used as part of a wider assessment of a child's needs, the parents' ability to meet those needs, and to inform what intervention should occur. They are performed by licensed psychologists. This happens after a referral has been made to SS and that referral is deemed accurate enough to warrant further investigation. This happens with all referrals (my understanding). I just had a quick Google and found the ministerial guidelines which emphasise the need for cultural sensitivity when the families aren't ethnic Danes. The problem with them as I mentioned up thread is that they fail to take cultural differences into account.

MaidOfSteel · 23/08/2025 16:03

Thank you, @StrictlyAFemaleFemale.

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