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Sweden's 28 Barnahus co-locate police, social services, prosecution and child psychiatry for child victims of sexual abuse. Evaluations show conviction rates 20–45% higher than jurisdictions without Barnahus; the model has been replicated across all Nordic countries and beyond.
Sweden's Barnahus ('Children's House') are child-friendly centres that co-locate police, prosecutors, social services, child psychiatry and forensic medicine so that child victims of sexual abuse and violence are interviewed once, in one place, rather than repeatedly across agencies. The first opened in Linköping in 2005, modelled on Iceland's 1998 Barnhús.
By 2022, 28 permanent Barnahus centres served 164 of Sweden's 290 municipalities. Comparative evaluations across Sweden, Norway and Denmark report conviction rates 20–45% higher than jurisdictions without Barnahus, and the model has been replicated across the Nordic countries and beyond.
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