64 NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism ANNUAL REPORT 2017 NPM staff from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway were gathered in Oslo in August 2017 to discuss the conditions for children who are deprived of liberty. The second network meeting was held in Oslo, and its topic was children deprived of their liberty. Kirsten Sandberg, professor at the University of Oslo and a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, gave a talk on considerations when determining the best interests of the child and prevention work. The Danish Ombudsman’s children’s office (Børnekontoret) shared its experience of visiting institutions where children and young people are deprived of their liberty. There was also time to discuss the use of coercive measures and police assistance when transferring young people between different institutions and places where they are deprived of their liberty. Summer school on the Mandela Rules In August 2017, the organisations Association for Prevention of Torture, Penal Reform International and the Human Rights Implementation Centre of the University of Bristol, organised a summer school for national preventive mechanisms and other organisations working in the field of torture prevention. The topic of the summer school was ‘Torture prevention through the application of the UN’s Mandela Rules’, and it was organised as a series of interactive modules that each dealt with a specific area of the updated UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules) from 2015. The participants learned more about the rules for invasive coercive measures, isolation, documentation, consideration of complaints and supervision, body searches, the health services and the role of health personnel. Group work outside during the summer school on the Mandela Rules.