Published 9 August 2024 at 11.12
Domestic. A majority of the country's social workers intend to continue paying your tax money to illegal immigrants – without reporting the immigrant to the police. This is shown by a report from the so-called academic union SSR.
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Eight out of ten social secretaries want the Academic Union SSR (which, despite its name, mostly organizes social workers and not researchers) will try to stop the law. Just as many believe that the obligation to report goes against their “professional ethics” as social workers.
Many of the women who apply to social services to work with people today would, according to the union, seek other career paths if they had to follow the law.
– A whistleblower law would be a disaster for social services. There is already a recruitment crisis where Sweden's municipalities are finding it difficult to recruit social workers. A whistleblower law would cause more people to leave their jobs and that would lead to worse social services, says Heike Erker, president of the Academic Union SSR, in a press release.
38 percent would consider resigning if a whistleblower law was introduced, according to the survey, which also shows that harsh penalties are required if the social workers are to choose that solution.
Six out of ten social workers state that they would not report undocumented people regardless of the penalty.