DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (DCI) - Belgium | Practical Guide Periodic Reports These kind of reports are produced on a periodic basis and should include all the findings and key issues of the visits performed by the monitoring body within this period to any kind of deprivation of liberty facilities, or of all the visits conducted to the same place of deprivation of liberty within a certain period of time. Such reports are made to allow the comparison between data, to give an overview of the situation over a certain period of time and to keep a record of the recommendations made and how they have been implemented over a certain period of time. Thematic Report Thematic reports may cover one or more issues that may need improvement in one, many or all facilities where children are deprived of their liberty, for example on the use of solitary confinement, serious harm or torture. Annual Report The purpose of an annual report is to globalise all the visits carried out by a monitoring body. Annual reports might also be the occasion to ʺʺ proceed to an in-depth analysis of the root-causes of the main issues or concerns emerging from the visits; ʺʺ establish links between the most important findings and observations; ʺʺ measure the level of implementation of the recommendations from one year to another; ʺʺ present a catalogue of all the visits performed and all the findings and recommendations place per place; ʺʺ focus on one or several thematic / specific issues. Thematic or annual reports should be seen as complementary to the visit reports on which they are based. 86