Child and youth welfare facilities Deficits in implementation The impressions gained by the commissions regarding the lack of participation of children and adolescents in facilities and homes were partly confirmed by the supervisory authorities of the Laender. Deficiencies in the implementation of measures were also noticeable on the visits of the technical supervision. The terms “participation” and “inclusion” meant nothing to the children. In cases like these, the attention of the staff and the management is drawn to the importance and effectiveness of participation for the success of the sociopedagogical work. Advanced training on these topics is offered. XX  Facilities need support in implementing the right to participation. XX  The participation of the children and adolescents must be lived in everyday life. 2.3.7 Lack of specialised accommodation places Extended stays in psychiatry On visits to child and adolescent psychiatric wards and in child and youth welfare crisis facilities, the commissions are repeatedly informed that adolescents with intensive support needs have to stay longer in inpatient care than required because there are not enough post-inpatient care places available. Misplacement due to lack of specialised care places At the same time, the commissions encounter severely traumatised children and adolescents in many socio-pedagogical facilities. The care in this setting is neither sufficient nor adequate and thus not expedient from a pedagogical viewpoint. The affected children need, above all, qualified, needs-based care. However, socio-therapeutic and socio-psychiatric services are missing all over Austria, the inevitable consequence of which is misplacements. In Carinthia, there are currently 95 socio-therapeutic care places for a total of 828 children and adolescents in full residential care in the inpatient area. In Salzburg, there are 6 care places for 589 minors; in Styria, also 6 care places for 2,100 children and adolescents; in Lower Austria, 304 for 1,271 children and adolescents; in Upper Austria, 74 places for 1,121 children and adolescents; in Tyrol, 19 places for 609 children. In Vorarlberg, there are 20 places for 323 and in Vienna 100 special care places for 2,217 socio-pedagogically cared for children and adolescents. In Burgenland, there are 54 places for 284 out-ofhome children and adolescents. Available places vary greatly in the Laender 72 Even if a comparison between the Laender is difficult due to unequal requirement specifications for special care, differing names and responsibilities, it is quite clear that in some Laender the ratio of available special places in relation to the number of children housed in socio-pedagogical facilities is very low. In Styria, the imbalance is particularly noticeable. In other Laender such as Lower Austria, the proportion is very high. One explanation for this could