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Norway’s hidden scandal
The UN rates Norway, the first country to appoint a Children’s Ombudsman, as one of the best countries for a child to grow up in.
And yet, according to many Norwegian experts, its child protection system is “dysfunctional” – too many children, they say, are taken into care without good reason.
- Tim Whewell
- BBC
The conviction of a top child protection psychiatrist for downloading child abuse images is now raising further serious questions.
It was a winter’s day, some years ago, when two child welfare specialists – a female psychologist and a male psychiatrist – knocked on the door of a small modern wooden house on the…