Abstract
OBJECTIVES: One aspect of the Swedish child healthcare is to support parents in their parenting role. The child healthcare nurses are also obligated to report situations that could cause suspicion of violence, and they are encouraged to collaborate with the social services when needed. In the extended home-visit programme called Grow Safely—child healthcare nurses and parental supporters from social service collaborate. There is a need to evaluate how trust could be built between families and the social services through such a collaboration. Thus, the aim of this study was to illuminate—how trust in the social services could be achieved through an extended home-visit programme within the child healthcare in collaboration with parental supporters. RESULTS: This is a qualitative study and 13 health and social professionals were interviewed. The results showed that it was important to initiate preventive support from the social services at an early stage. It seemed that the child healthcare nurses could build on the high level of trust that they enjoy, as a profession, and that, by introducing the parental supporters from the social services, they enabled the families to start trusting them too.