著者

澤野 由紀子

出版者

日本教育政策学会

雑誌

日本教育政策学会年報

巻号頁・発行日

no.19, pp.8-22, 2012-07-15

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Sweden is known as a country with a strong system of child care support in which children's right is secured. However, as population with foreign background increased to reach 19% in 2011, situation surrounding child care and education is changing rapidly. There are increasing number of children and youth at risk of child abuse and delinquency, which necessitate collaborative measures to be taken by different administrative sections in charge of children and youth at national, regional and community levels. In this paper, the author describes the background and process of multi-agency working involving different sectors in charge of children and youth, which is promoted in Sweden from the mid 20th century, together with the structure and concrete strategies of administrative integration for children and youth. The integration of administration for children and youth in Sweden has been realized bottom up starting from the needs of the people at community level. It is contrasting to the top-down approach which tends to start from re-organization of central government in order to integrate different ministries and agencies.