According to the report that investigator Eva Broström is now submitting to Minister of Education and Integration Simona Mohamsson (L), it is both practically and legally difficult to introduce a mandatory language preschool for children with insufficient knowledge of Swedish.
The investigation's analysis and assessment is that there are no legal grounds for introducing mandatory preschool for certain children, says Broström.
She points out that there are also risks of indirect discrimination and refers, among other things, to the Instrument of Government, the European Convention and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
There we see that it is not possible to single out certain children, she says.
Eva Broström instead proposes strengthened outreach activities, the right to extended time in public preschool, a pilot program in preschool with language-strengthening interventions, and a language assessment from the age of three that could give the right to preschool with language support.
According to Simona Mohamsson, the government will nevertheless move forward with a proposal.
The government agrees that we need to find a way to introduce a mandatory language preschool for the children who need it most, and we will come back soon about how we will do it, she says.
