@article{ref1,
title="Contact person as a court‐ordered solution in child visitation disputes in Sweden",
journal="Child and family social work",
year="2008",
author="Andersson, Gunvor and Arvidsson, Maria Bangura",
volume="13",
number="2",
pages="197-206",
abstract="Separated parents have the joint responsibility to give their children access to the other parent. If they fail to reach a visitation agreement, the District Court will decide on one for them. In Sweden one demand can be supervision by a contact person. This paper is about court-ordered visitations including supervision by a contact person. Different public systems, with different interpretations of the best interest of the child, have to interact in these cases: the District Court makes the decision on supervised visitation and the Social Services appoint a contact person and follow the intervention up. There is a shortage of research on this use of a contact person, and an exploratory research project is carried through: Three small-scale studies, based on group-interviews with family law social workers, social files and individual interviews with contact persons, supplement each other and form together a Social Services perspective on the intervention. The results are presented according to five themes: Social Services and the court; the families and children concerned; contact arrangements; termination of the intervention; Social Services' perceptions of the intervention. The conclusion is that contact person is perceived as a positive solution for children in visitation disputes involving risk. However, the intervention brings up some contradictory interests important to be conscious of.<p />",
language="",
issn="1356-7500",
doi="10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00532.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00532.x"
}