The child welfare service's meeting with high conflict cases

In recent years, there has been a large increase in reports to the child welfare service regarding a high degree of conflict between parents. The cases fall under both the Children's Act and the Child Welfare Act, and families may need assistance from both family protection and child welfare. Both services find these issues challenging.

With the new child welfare reform, the municipalities have been given greater responsibility for measures and the County Governor of Vestland has established a learning network for the child welfare service to support development projects in municipal child welfare.

The "Vestlandsmodellen" (West Norway model) for investigating high-conflict cases in child welfare is one of the development projects that started in 2019. The purpose of the research project is to

• Investigate the child welfare service's experience with high-conflict cases and
• Carry out a process evaluation of the " Vestlandsmodellen" (West Norway model).

The project is carried out in collaboration with the Learning Network for the Child Welfare Services - County Governor of Vestland.

Method: focus group interview with contact persons in the child welfare service.

Funding: The development project is supported by the County Governor of Vestland, the research project has no funding.siering: Utviklingsprosjektet er støttet av Statsforvalteren, forskningsprosjektet har ingen finansiering