Criticisms
Thousands of former children in care have sought compensation for the suffering and abuse under child protection. The majority of these have received compensation. In total 220 million dollars (2010).
The Service has been severely criticized by the Government of India for taking away two children of an Indian couple who are working in Norway.
Berit Aarset, who heads Human Rights Alert, Norway, has called the incident "state kidnapping." She said, "This is not the first time such a thing is happening in Norway ...the legal system favours the Child Welfare Services and they do what they want all the time....quite often when a Norwegian is married to a non-Norwegian they also do the same thing; they also do this to asylum seekers and in almost every case they say one of the parents have a mental problem just to make their case strong ...that is what has happened in the Bhattacharya case too."
The Child Welfare services were accused of forced abduction of two Turkish-Norwegian Kids from Turkey using a private investigator. The children were handed to the foster parents who stayed with their parents. Some time later, the foster father was arrested for child sex abuse clearly demonstrating the ineptitude of the child welfare services.
Another incident involved a Russian citizen living in Norway. Her shocking staments took many newspapers' front pages: "During the court hearings, the judge told me: 'We give you residence permit, and you give us your son.' I refused, and then the repressions started."
Many times in past Child Welfare Services have been accused on violation of human rights for taking away children from their parents.
In two widely publicized cases, the Polish private investigator Krzysztof Rutkowski has helped children (a Russian-born boy and a Polish girl) escape Norwegian foster care and reunite with their parents.
Read more about this topic: Child Welfare Services (Norway)
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