Oslo: Proposal to fight 'missing children' phenomenon

Oslo: Proposal to fight 'missing children' phenomenon


Parents who keep their children from school should lose their welfare support, says deputy head of the Frp city fraction in Oslo, Mazyar Keshvari.

Keshvari, who himself came to Norway from Iran as an asylum seeker, says that every year there are children and youth of immigrant background who don't come back to school after the summer vacation. The schools use great resources to find out what happened to these children, but do not have sufficient means to get information from the parents.

He demands several measures from the government to follow up on missing children. Parents who keep their children from school without valid reason should lose social support and child benefits should be replaced with study support for children ages 15-18.

He wants to have a national register to show which students in elementary school age don't go to Norwegian schools and asks the government to set up a team to prepare a plan for which sanctions should be directed at parents who keep their children from school.

Source: Dagbladet (Norwegian)

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