Denmark to ditch ‘parenting competency’ tests for Greenlandic families

Human rights bodies have long criticised the tests as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people

Denmark has announced it is abandoning the use of highly controversial parenting competency" tests on Greenlandic families, amid fury over the way that they have been routinely used on people with Inuit backgrounds, often resulting in the separation of children from their parents.

Campaigners have been warning about the discriminatory impact of the psychometric tests used in Danish child protection investigations - known as FKU (foraeldrekompetenceundersogelse) - for years. Human rights bodies have long criticised them as being culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities living in Denmark, which once ruled the Arctic island as a colony and continues to control its foreign and security policy.