"Myndigheter som jobbar tillsammans kan ju uppnå saker bättre genom att samverka än om alla kör sitt eget race" : En kvalitativ studie om hur socialtjänsten och skolan samverkar gällande elever med problematisk skolgång

The aim with this study was to develop a greater understanding of how the collaboration process between school and social services takes place with the purpose to enable the students chances for a good education, as well as a better understanding regarding how each participant sees the collaboration. To study this a qualitative method has been used when we interviewed four workers from the schools “elevhälsa” and four professionelles from the social services. The empiricism has been interpreted from a hermeneutics perspective and in the analyses linked with Malcolm Paynes systems theory. In the discussion the result has been compared with previous studies. Our results show that the respondents believes that a collaboration between social services and school is important and necessary in the process of helping a student with its problematic schooling. It also appears that a collaboration process is not always easy and can have some complications. The results show that the factors that affect a collaboration the most are each participants scope for action as well as the communication between the participants during the process