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Exception to sick leave rules improves work prospects
Individuals on long-term sick leave have better prospects of returning to their regular job with the same number of working hours if their capacity to...
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Inadequate identity investigations in Sweden
State initiatives to establish the identity of individuals entering Sweden are not sufficiently effective. These deficiencies pose a heightened risk o...
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Neglected management of national parks and nature reserves
The management of Sweden’s most valuable natural areas is neglected. The shortcomings are mainly due to inadequate funding and follow-up that is not f...
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The Swedish National Audit Office elected onto the Governing Board of EUROSAI
In connection with the congress that is held every three years, the Swedish National Audit Office was elected onto the Governing Board of EUROSAI last...
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The Swedish Inheritance Fund should be wound up
The Swedish Inheritance Fund receives more money than it can distribute, while at the same time the controls performed on the organisations applying f...
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Shortcomings in state compulsory care of children and youths
Care and treatment at the special residential homes for young people of the National Board of Institutional Care is neither adequate nor sufficiently ...
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Targets partly missed in the corporatisation of the Swedish Road Administration and Rail Administration
The state-owned companies Svevia and Infranord were formed to create better competition, greater productivity and efficiency, as well as lower prices ...
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Inadequate interventions when children are suspected of serious crimes
Serious crime among children is a growing problem in Sweden. The audit of the Swedish National Audit Office (“the Swedish NAO”) shows that the interve...
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Shortcomings in state preventive efforts to combat money laundering
The preventive efforts of the state to combat money laundering fall short in effectiveness. The Government’s management of the anti-money laundering s...
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