Each year 225 million pigs are transported within the European Union (EU) for slaughter, fattening and breeding. This results in poor animal Welfare due to the fact that animals are exposed to several numbers of stress factors in the vehicle during loading, transit and unloading. Animal Welfare can be defined as how well the animal attempts to cope with its environment and during transport there is often severe difficulty for the pigs to cope properly. There is a growing societal concern for animal Welfare. This resulted in that the European Union enacted a law called the EU-regulation with certain directives of how to improve the Welfare of the animals during transport.

The aim of the study was to get a deeper understanding of how social workers at the Welfare office think and act when it comes to methadone or buprenorphine treatment. What role does the Welfare office take when it comes to methadone- or buprenorphine treatment, what does the Welfare office think about this form of treatment, what possibilities does the Welfare office have when it comes to decide the selection to this kind of treatment and what consideration does the Welfare office take to the separate individuals demands when it comes to methadone- or buprenorphine treatment. The study is done in the perspective of society as a social construction. The method that was used was qualitative interviews with professionals at the Welfare office and professionals at the reception of methadone- and buprenorphine treatment. The result of the study is that the attitude towards methadone- and buprenorphine treatment is complicated and the opinions are partly divided..

The purpose with this study was to get a deeper understanding of how the social Welfare secretaries experience the meeting with clients.Our main questions were how the social Welfare secretaries thinks about their own way to behave in the meeting with clients, which difficulties/obstacles there can be a and which factors they think affect the meeting. What is it that makes the social Welfare secretaries experience a meeting as good or less good.Theory used: ?naive theory? and ?theory of communication?. The social Welfare secretaries emphasised the importance of respect and clarity in their relations with the clients. By contrast with literature, the hover between power and support was not found difficult.The goal is that the social Welfare secretaries and the clients understand each other and that they reach the purpose with the meeting..

Animal Welfare can be measured in several different ways; for example by using animal-based measurements. It has been shown that register data from the Swedish Official Milk Recording Scheme can be helpful when identifying herds at risk of having poor animal Welfare, which led to a development of the advisory service of ?Ask the Cow? and the web report ?Animal Welfare Signals?. The aim of this project was to find out if register data from ?Animal Welfare Signals? can be used as a screening tool for detecting herds at risk of having poor animal Welfare and in need of an ?Ask the Cow?.

Social policy has now received an increased attention in the European Union. The European Welfare states experience a high level of unemployment, which the EU now tries to handle through the European Employment Strategy (EES). The core of this essay is whether the Welfare institutions of the European member states are integrating through an institutionalization process or not. Within the EU four different types of Welfare models can be identified: the Scandinavian, the Continental, the Southern and the Anglo-Saxon. The Welfare models differ in the institutional settings e.g.

The purpose with this essay is to take part of the process when a family is placed on the family-institution, Trollbacken. We want to know what makes the social Welfare secretaries place a family in institutional care. Has Trollbacken lived up to the social Welfare secretary expectations and are the social Welfare secretaries following Trollbackens recommendation regarding the follow up treatment. We also want to know to what value the social Welfare secretary assigns Trollbackens investigation and are they able to see changes in the family due to the placing on Trollbacken. The method is qualitative and is based on interviews from six social Welfare secretaries that work around and in West Sweden.

This qualitative study is about the individual supportive conversation with the school Welfare officer in upper secondary school. The main aim of the study was to find out what the pupils get out of a series of conversations with the school Welfare officer and what it means for the pupils that the Welfare officer belongs to the school organization. Six qualitative interviews were held with pupils who had conversation contact with the school Welfare officer during their time at upper secondary school.I found that these pupils and Welfare officers were oriented towards change and solutions. I found that the most important thing for the pupils was to achieve a good and trusting relationship with the Welfare officer. After this the pupil starts a process of change in cooperation with the Welfare officer, with the aim that the pupil should be happy and satisfied with the current life situation.

Indications on poor understanding for the animal producers situation from the inspectors of animal Welfare control have been seen in papers from farmers interest organizations. The aim of this study was to investigate what farmers view is on the animal Welfare inspections done by regional Swedish authorities as well as the animal Welfare inspectors work. The study investigated whether or not there were any differences between different counties in Sweden. There were also questions asked to see what animal producers thought could change in the animal Welfare inspectors work so it would benefit them. The study was conducted using a telephone interview questionnaire.

The aim of this paper is to describe how to measure Welfare effect of the deregulation and increased competition of the public transport by railway in Sweden. The paper also includes a numerical example of how to measure the Welfare effect. In our study we use public data from SJ regaring quantity and ticket prices for the period 1996 - 2005. We have used equivalent variation, EV, as the method to measure the Welfare effect. We demonstrate how to derive the equation to calculate EV by starting with a Marschallian demand function.

Stunning of pigs at slaughter constitutes of primarily two methods; carbon dioxide and electricity. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages from an animal Welfare point of view. The purpose of this study is to compare different methods of stunning pigs from a Welfare point of view. Questions included in the study are 1) What differences are there, from an animal Welfare point of view, between CO2 and electricity as methods for stunning pigs? 2) What alternatives are there to the methods currently in use? 3) Which method for stunning pigs is preferable from an animal Welfare point of view?This report is a literature review.

On the first January 2009 the official animal Welfare control were transferred from the municipalities to the County Administrative board. With this transition, some changes occurred for those who work as animal Welfare inspectors. The aim for this study was to examine farmers' view on the transition between the municipalities and County Administrative board, in order to compare the two authorities. I have also studied the farmers view about animal Welfare inspectors' knowledge, both theoretical and practical. The questionnaire also included questions about farmers' view on animal Welfare legislation.

The aim of this project is to study the work that has been done by the youth Welfare to prevent accidents and to increase the preparedness in case of fire. Further the aim is to develop a basis to improve the interaction between the fire services and the youth Welfare. The conclusions that were made during the project can be used to increase the safety of the environment that estates by the youth Welfare..

In the beginning of 2009 The County Administrative Boards assumed the responsibility of animal Welfare, a task previously performed by the individual municipalities. This transfer was made with the aim of achieving more efficient and equivalent animal Welfare controls across the country. Previous studies among animal owners have shown a somewhat negative image of animal Welfare controls. This study focuses on investigating the experiences of the horse keepers in the County of Halland concerning animal Welfare. The study is based on a questionnaire which was sent to 423 horse keepers in Halland, of which 130 were returned with information that laid the foundation of this study.

Millions of animals are annually affected by human activities; in the food industry, zoos and animal shows, clothes and shoes production, furniture and pharmaceutical industry, research, as well as pet and sports animal industry. Companies working with Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, have become more common and within this area there are great possibilities for companies to work with animal Welfare. In this study five companies were interviewed and 27 companies participated in a survey regarding CSR and animal Welfare. The aim of this study was to investigate opinion and approach among companies towards implementing animal Welfare as a part of their work with CSR. Furthermore the aim of the study was to investigate how companies may implement animal Welfare. The result showed that the vast majority of the companies participating in the study works with CSR and the main part of the companies also answered that they have implemented animal Welfare. The way of working with animal Welfare varied among the participants; e.g.

Animal Welfare is of increasing concern in present society. In commercial pig farming, animal Welfare problems are common. One of the causes for these problems is the barren environment in which pigs are housed, which can cause oral manipulation of pen mates. Providing straw might be one solution to this problem. Another solution could be reached through genetic selection.