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National Council of Swedish Children and Youth Organisations

national council of youth organizations

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ10553974 ↗
Source-derived summary

The National Council of Swedish Children and Youth Organisations (Swedish: Landsrådet för Sveriges Ungdomsorganisationer) is a major umbrella organization for Swedish children's and youth organizations. It has 83 member organizations. It was founded as the Sveriges Ungdomsberedskap in 1942 with Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten as its first president. It includes organizations such as Scouterna, the Red Cross Youth, organizations for students and pupils and many others.

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“National Council of Swedish Children and Youth Organisations” enters the record as national council of youth organizations. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what National, Council and Swedish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-06-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around National, Council and Swedish.
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This entry incorporates text from “National Council of Swedish Children and Youth Organisations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.