Working method and organisation 13 The reports are sent to the place visited and published on the Ombudsman’s website. We always request that the report is made available to the people deprived of their liberty and the staff. The places visited are given a deadline for informing the Ombudsman about their follow-up of the recommendations. Their follow-up is also published on the Ombudsman’s website. The Norwegian authorities are obliged to consider the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s recommendations and initiate dialogue on possible implementation measures. Broad approach The reasons for torture or ill-treatment occurring are complex and influenced by factors such as legal and institutional frameworks, physical conditions, training, resources, management and institutional culture.1 Effective prevention work therefore requires a broad approach that does not exclusively focus on whether the situation complies with Norwegian law. The NPM’s work is largely based on international conventions, guidelines and rules. A bed at the segregation unit at the psychiatry department at Ålesund Hospital. The NPM’s work also entails information work, dialogue with the public administration, official bodies, supervisory authorities and civil society (see chapter 6). The NPM also cooperates and exchanges information with a number of international human rights bodies (see chapter 7). 1 See the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT), The approach of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to the concept of prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 30 December 2010 CAT/OP/12/6.