How do healthcare professionals interpret and apply the healthcare regulations' vague provisions on the legal status of children? In their daily work, healthcare professionals are expected to understand and apply the medical regulations. It is very general and ambiguous, and this applies in particular to the provisions relating to the legal status of children in health care. This gives rise to a number of interpretive problems. For example, what content should be included in the concept of "best interests of the child"?

In this project, a lawyer and legal researcher participates in the children's healthcare at Skåne County Council. The purpose is to examine more closely how the applied law emerges in the practical activities and how routines and governing documents can be designed in accordance with the rule of law. Theories on legal realism are applied in the project, which has an exploratory approach, where sociology of law and ethnographic methods are combined.