The Child Welfare Service is obligated by law to take into account the child's ethnical, cultural, linguistic, and religious background at all stages of a child welfare case. This is underlined in a new Section in the new Child Welfare Act (Section 1-8), which entered into force 1 January 2023, in order to emphasise the importance of this aspect. In the previous Child Welfare Act, too, there were several provisions to ensure that children's cultural, linguistic, and religious background were taken into account. To enable case workers in the Child Welfare Service to fulfill these obligations, there is a focus on cultural competence in different training programmes.