Tværprofessionelt samarbejde om børneliv i vanskeligheder

Abstract

In general parents have the task to support their children’s everyday life in school and leisure time in cooperation with professionals. When children are living in out-of-home care, “society” assumes to a greater or lesser extent to take responsibility of the task that is distributed between professionals and embedded in an inter-professional cooperation. Research has shown that children and young people living in out-of-home care leave school with lower educational achievements than other children, and this affects their future educational op- portunities. The article is based on a research project that has followed the inter-professional collaboration directed at supporting children’s schooling and leisure time activities during their out-of-home placements. The article con- tributes with knowledge about how difficulties in these children’s everyday life are related to problems in the inter-professional collabora- tion. Discussions about how to care for these children are often focusing on whether they need more protection or more demands from adults. The article points out how protection and demands must be understood as interrelated aspects of child care situated in concrete contexts. Furthermore the article discusses whether municipal attempts to set goals and distribute professional tasks contribute to professional knowledge sharing and to the development of joint actions in relation to children’s social participation in everyday life across contexts.