Myths and realities - immigrants’ encounters with the Child Welfare Service. English summery.

A premise of the debate on the relationship between the Child Welfare Services and the minority population has been an assertion that child protection interventions are over-represented among children of minority backgrounds. This is some of the background for the wish expressed by the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs for more knowledge about the subject. Our task has been to investigate whether this impression of the Child Welfare Services is based on myths or reality.