The proposal: Make BVC visits mandatory

Mandatory BVC visits up to the age of four.

This is one of the proposals from Gulan Avci (L), the government’s coordinator against exclusion.

She condemns the Social Democrats’ well-known proposal against segregation.

– The sinner will wake up late, says Avci. News, reports and analyses in Sweden and in the rest of the world.

Just over a year ago, the Liberal Party’s then party secretary, MP Gulan Avci, was appointed national coordinator against exclusion. Since then, she has traveled around Sweden’s exclusion areas, where a total of 170,000 children are estimated to be growing up, to develop proposals for measures.

On June 18, she will present them to Integration Minister Mats Persson (L).

The measures proposed by Gulan Avci are aimed at strengthening integration and, in the long term, reducing new recruitment into gangs.

Withdrawn child support

One of the proposals involves investigating how to make BVC visits for children between 2.5 and 4 years mandatory.

According to Gulan Avci, children in vulnerable areas are at greater risk of ill health and insecurity, such as honor-related violence and oppression. In order to detect problems in families and be able to take early action to help children with a neglected language, she believes that the checks are important.

At the same time, it has been observed that parents in the areas are more often absent from visits. This may be due to problems understanding the messages due to language deficiencies, but also a distrust of authorities.

– If the visits were made mandatory, more children would likely show up, says Avci, adding:

– And then more children who are at risk of falling behind, for example in their language development, would be discovered and different types of individual interventions could be implemented.

Anyone who still doesn’t come to the visits should risk reporting a concern to social services, says Gulan Avci. And she is also open to changing the system of child benefit and making it possible to withdraw it.

– Failing to show up must have consequences.

Gulan Avci also wants authorities and actors close to young children to be given the right to share information with each other. For example, the BVC should be able to inform the preschool about a child’s lack of language.

She also wants to put an end to the establishment of new private preschools in vulnerable areas, strengthen knowledge about honor oppression within preschools and force all principals to charge a fee from parents.

Separating children by gender

According to Gulan Avci, unscrupulous actors today lure parents in disadvantaged areas by offering their preschools, which often have an ethnic or religious profile, for free. At the same time, the principals receive a share of society’s financial flat-rate compensation, which is often higher in disadvantaged areas.

She says she has heard “horrifying examples” of how some actors act.

– These are preschools that are dedicated to separating boys and girls and contribute to reinforcing segregation. They target parents who have low trust in preschool and exploit the fear that exists, says Avci.

– If the generation that is now growing up, children born in Sweden, is to become part of our future, then we cannot have actors who oppose integration and contribute to maintaining values that do not align with the values of preschool.

Easy jobs and reduced taxes

Segregation is expected to be one of the major election issues next year.

The Social Democrats have hammered out a series of measures that the party wants to see, which came from a working group led by MP Lawen Redar. Initiatives such as building more rental apartments in more prosperous “Swedish” areas have attracted a lot of attention.

Gulan Avci snorts at the S proposals and what she believes is the party’s late awakening. She does not believe in moving people and believes that it is S’s policies that have largely caused the emergence of parallel societies.

– I have spoken to so many people who want to stay in their area, what they are looking for is security. Efforts so that they can get a job and support themselves.

Suggestions from the national coordinator against exclusion

Coordinator Gulan Avci (L) states that there are 180 areas in 66 municipalities that have major problems with exclusion, the worst problems are in 40 of these areas distributed over 20 municipalities.

On June 18, she will submit a series of proposals for measures she thinks should be taken, aimed at the youngest children.

It’s about: Mandatory BVC visits up to the age of 4.

Opportunity for authorities and stakeholders to share information.

All children should have the right to preschool for 30 hours a week, even if their parents are unemployed or on parental leave.

A compulsion to charge fees for all preschools.

That a ban on the establishment of private preschools should be considered in vulnerable areas.

That work on honor-related violence and oppression should be strengthened in preschool.