Posts tagged Skollagen

What Skollagen, the Swedish Education Act, requires schools to do for students who need extra anpassningar and särskilt stöd, and where everyday practice falls short.

The Nuro team 28 Jul 2026

New teacher, same entitlement. What to check in the first weeks of term so last year's support does not quietly vanish.

Support does not expire over the summer. An åtgärdsprogram ends when the rektor decides the student no longer needs särskilt stöd, not when the school year does. But the adults change in August, and adaptations that lived in one teacher's memory leave with them. Here is what to check, and when.

Posts tagged Skollagen

New teacher, same entitlement. What to check in the first weeks of term so last year's support does not quietly vanish.

On 1 August, ordningsregler become skolregler with a consequence plan. Here is what that plan must not do to a neurodivergent student.

Does the student get a say in their own support?

Sweden's schools go mobile-free on 1 August 2026. What if the phone is the student's support tool?

What schools must do for neurodivergent students: a guide for school leaders

Does my child have a right to skolskjuts? A funktionsnedsättning is a ground of its own

Support in fritidshem: the right does not end when the school day does

How to prepare for your child's utvecklingssamtal when they have ADHD, autism or dyslexia

Starting school with a neurodivergent child: the support that applies from year one

Your child's right to support in Swedish school: the complete guide

How to report a school to Skolinspektionen when your child is not getting support

What is an utvecklingssamtal? The termly meeting where a struggling student should first be caught

What is a särskild undervisningsgrupp? One of Sweden's most intrusive forms of school support, explained

The school decided your child does not need särskilt stöd. You can appeal that, and here is how.

Sweden's school inspector went into 30 schools. At two in three, teaching was not built around students' needs.

Does my child have a right to an elevassistent?

Lovskola: the holiday tuition a school must offer when a student risks missing gymnasiet

Trygghet och studiero: when a student keeps disrupting, the law says investigate, not just discipline

SIP: the plan that coordinates school, healthcare and social services, and why the school is not automatically part of it

Digital learning tools: what Swedish schools must provide free of charge

Kränkande behandling: what the school is legally required to do

NPF support rights at gymnasiet: the same law still applies

Failing to support a neurodivergent student can be unlawful discrimination

When a neurodivergent student changes school, their support is meant to follow them

Two roles in Swedish schools, one shortage: what it means for students with ADHD, autism and dyslexia

Can a school teach a student who cannot come in at all? Yes, and the law is specific about when

What do extra anpassningar actually look like? Nine concrete examples from Skolverket

Can a student with dyslexia or ADHD get adaptations on the national tests?

When a child stops coming to school, what is the school required to do?

When a disability blocks one grading criterion, can the teacher still set the grade?

What is anpassad studiegång, and why the law says to use it as little as possible

What is tilläggsbelopp, and why it rarely pays for everyday NPF support

The benchmark is one school psychologist per 500 students. In Sweden it is 1,269.

Swedish teachers spend about a third of their working time actually teaching

Around 70% of BUP's doctor visits now go to ADHD. School support cannot wait for the assessment.

Before extra anpassningar comes ledning och stimulans: the first step of support every student already has.

Sweden is replacing the early-support guarantee with standardized tests. What it means for neurodivergent students.

The utredning behind särskilt stöd: what a school must do before support starts

What an åtgärdsprogram must actually contain, and where they most often fall short

Sweden guaranteed early support for struggling students. Its own inspector says the guarantee isn't delivering.

Sweden's own school inspectorate says the duty to support students is not always met.

What is an accessible learning environment? Sweden already defined it.

Sweden has decided to rewrite how schools give support. Here is what proposition 2025/26:195 changes.

Sweden's Parliament put numbers on the NPF school gap. They are hard to look away from.

Your child does not need a diagnosis to get support at school

For school leaders: student support is the deficiency Skolinspektionen keeps finding, and what it now costs

What is NPF? Neurodevelopmental conditions in Swedish schools, explained

Autism in the classroom: what actually helps, today

Dyslexia in the classroom: what actually helps, today

When your child is not getting support at school: a parent's guide to your rights

ADHD in the classroom: what actually helps, today

The false economy of cutting special-education support

Extra anpassningar, särskilt stöd, åtgärdsprogram: what Skollagen actually requires

Sweden needs 80% more special-education teachers. The students can't wait for them.

The right to support exists. The system to deliver it doesn't. Yet.