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Tobias Smedberg

Uppsala Municipality: "We have failed in our mission"

Uppsala Municipality acknowledges serious shortcomings in the handling of the case where a home care employee assaulted and harassed an elderly woman. I want to extend an apology from the municipality for not having succeeded in protecting you from the perpetrator, says the Chairman of the Elderly Committee Tobias Smedberg (V).

Uppsala Municipality: "We have failed in our mission"

Many municipalities do not check criminal records

An older woman has told about how she was raped by a home care employee in Uppsala. Now the municipality has started demanding extracts from the criminal record at employment.

Many municipalities do not check criminal records