https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Reports that that a couple kept their children isolated in a country house for nine years, refusing to send them to school, have shocked Sweden, with the local municipality under pressure to explain why no alarm bells rung. https://www.thelocal.se/20190604/swedish-couple-isolated-children-for-nine-years-report Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:44:01 +0200 swedish-couple-isolated-children-for-nine-years-report The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) has proposed a new type of company that would limit profits made in the tax-funded welfare sector, in a move that goes against the line of their traditional political ally, the opposition Social Democrat Party. https://www.thelocal.se/20130115/45622 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:30:00 +0100 45622 A 45-year-old woman from southern Sweden and her two children have been missing for three months, presumed to be hiding from authorities after social services took the two kids into care. https://www.thelocal.se/20121004/43606 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:21:00 +0200 43606 In a case that has caused huge reactions across Sweden, the woman who reported her sister and sister's husband to social services for allegedly sexually abusing their daughters has told her version of events. https://www.thelocal.se/20111104/37170 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:41:00 +0100 37170 One call to social services was enough to land a Swedish couple behind bars and have their kids taken away for more than two months after an innocent situation was misinterpreted as sexual abuse. https://www.thelocal.se/20111102/37110 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:26:00 +0100 37110 A Swedish woman was arrested on child pornography suspicions after she filmed her two young children taking a bath in an effort to prove they had been sexually abused by their father. https://www.thelocal.se/20110304/32400 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:25:00 +0100 32400 Social service chiefs in Helsingborg are under fire for not intervening to help a 16-year-old girl, despite receiving several reports that she was abusing drugs and selling sex. https://www.thelocal.se/20100624/27420 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:42:00 +0200 27420 A 14-year-old in Linköping in central Sweden suspected in dozens of crimes continues to evade authorities in part because he is too young to be investigated by police. https://www.thelocal.se/20090116/16956 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:56:00 +0100 16956 A property owner group in Stockholm has promised to provide apartments for homeless people. Up to 100 trial and training homes could be on offer. https://www.thelocal.se/20081214/16340 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:06:00 +0100 16340