The County Council should postpone the processing of school closures in the interior, believes lawyer John Christian Elden, who believes the decision may violate the Constitution. – Our assessment is that the professional basis for the change in the school and provision structure lacks sufficient assessments of the child’s best interests, as required by both the Constitution and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, says lawyer John Christian Elden in a press release. His law firm has been engaged by the Parents’ Work Committee at Dokka primary and secondary school, and the action groups “Save Dokka viderådeingen” and “Interdisciplinary working group for future school in Innlandet” in connection with the county council in Innlandet’s handling of the school structure case. They believe that the decision-making basis is poor when it comes to assessments of the child’s best interests. On Monday, a memo was submitted about “assessments regarding the best interests of the child”, but Elden believes this bears the stamp of hasty work, superficial assessments and rationalizations made afterwards. It is also a weakness that the child’s best assessment was apparently made by the same administration that was responsible for the underlying investigation. – It is our assessment that the clear weaknesses in the case presentation raise doubts as to whether the Constitution and the Convention on the Rights of the Child require the best interests of the child to be sufficiently taken care of and assessed. We therefore recommend that the County Council postpones the final processing of the case pending an independent and professionally based assessment of the child’s best interests, says Elden.
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