This thesis analyses eight articles from Slovenian media channels and tries to answer the question of social work aspect in our society and how it is portrait in the media. This will be done with the help of the story of the Carinthian boys. We ask ourselves what is the role of social workers, who monitors their work and how the media is mixed up in all of it. We will talk about the discourse surrounding the Carinthian boys, what we learn about them and their story, what role did their grandparents have, what were the decisions made by the state authorities, how is our legislation viewed by the European court and how it is distinguished from the Slovenian one. An important aspect is the public and it’s role in the whole decision making.The public itself played a big rule by protesting, filing their own ideas for a change in the law making and made use of it’s right to free speech. The results show, that media reporting is objective, but certain data can be left out of articles. Media houses with a small percentage of viewership tend to report more sensational and use headlines that attract. They also use picture material with the aim to invoke certain emotions by their viewers. On the social work field we learn that mistakes happened but they’re not of the substantive nature. The decision to put a kid into foster care is a lengthy process, that includes a number of different institutions and people involved in the decision making. It happened that laws were interpret differently when looking at the legislation from the Slovenian or general European side. In this case the European law weighs that of more importance.
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