Norway: Close to 4,000 children missing
Close to 4,000 children registered in Norway are missing from Norwegian schools. Some of the children were probably sent to their parent's homeland.
Human Rights Service (HRS) compared the statistics from Norway Statistics (SSB) regarding children and youth with the statistics of students in Norwegian elementary schools. The comparison shows a big difference. 3,877 children who are registered in the country are missing from the school registry. The problem is greatest in Oslo, which differs on 1,852 children. In the northern counties the difference is zero, when one compares the school data with the data from SSB.
"We know of concrete groups of children, who are dumped. groups of siblings of five, six children who are dumped in countries like Somalia, Pakistan and Gambia," says Hege Storhaug of HRS to NRK.
"We can name parents who live in Oslo, but who have children in their land of origin, while the children are registered in Norway," he adds.
Principal Trine Hauger of the Vahl school in Oslo confirms that it happens that children simply disappear.
"The children which we have registered in the school, we have relatively good oversight over, but it happens that some don't show up," she says.
According to NRK, Education Minister Bård Vegar Solhjell (SV) thinks that the situation is very serious and that Oslo in particular must follow the existing procedures. It happens a little, according to the Red Cross.
"I think nobody is really concretely looking for these children," says department head Vidar Remfeldt of the Oslo Red Cross.
Source: Dagbladet (Norway)
See also: Oslo: Kids missing from schools
Close to 4,000 children registered in Norway are missing from Norwegian schools. Some of the children were probably sent to their parent's homeland.
Human Rights Service (HRS) compared the statistics from Norway Statistics (SSB) regarding children and youth with the statistics of students in Norwegian elementary schools. The comparison shows a big difference. 3,877 children who are registered in the country are missing from the school registry. The problem is greatest in Oslo, which differs on 1,852 children. In the northern counties the difference is zero, when one compares the school data with the data from SSB.
"We know of concrete groups of children, who are dumped. groups of siblings of five, six children who are dumped in countries like Somalia, Pakistan and Gambia," says Hege Storhaug of HRS to NRK.
"We can name parents who live in Oslo, but who have children in their land of origin, while the children are registered in Norway," he adds.
Principal Trine Hauger of the Vahl school in Oslo confirms that it happens that children simply disappear.
"The children which we have registered in the school, we have relatively good oversight over, but it happens that some don't show up," she says.
According to NRK, Education Minister Bård Vegar Solhjell (SV) thinks that the situation is very serious and that Oslo in particular must follow the existing procedures. It happens a little, according to the Red Cross.
"I think nobody is really concretely looking for these children," says department head Vidar Remfeldt of the Oslo Red Cross.
Source: Dagbladet (Norway)
See also: Oslo: Kids missing from schools
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