Sweden
The Vision municipal services union has welcomed the decision by the Work Environment Authority to launch an investigation into the working conditions in social services. Mental health problems due to the heavy workload has been identified as an urgent problem with little scope to undertake preventive measures. Vision has produced a number of reports that show that employees in the social services have an unreasonable workload and staff turnover is high and that many social workers look to switch careers. Vision points out that its members have extensive knowledge of how to deal with the problems with the need for stability in staff numbers, good training, a maximum number of cases per officer, among other initiatives. There will be over 300 inspections in the southern and eastern parts of the country this year, continuing across the country in 2016-17.
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