2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE organise measures for reducing the employees’ negative attitude to patients from children’s’ care institutions, strengthen cooperation with them and provide detailed information to patients on their rights and duties. The Ministry of Education and Science has informed the Education Divisions of the municipalities and the National Agency for School Evaluation about the circumstances identified in the Report with respect to the stigmatising approach of the educational establishments towards children in care and requested the principals of schools on the elimination of any intolerance to any form of discrimination, respect of schools for the principles of ensuring equal opportunities, the meeting of different educational needs of children with account of their level of learning and achievements, learning capacity and skills, maturity and mental and physical characteristics, as well as the provision of effective educational assistance to schoolchildren, cooperation with parents (carers, custodians) and the creation of a general microclimate favourable to the school community. employee qualifications are improved continuously, and a psychologist comes to assistance in solving the problems, with a view to preventing any stigmatising approach towards children in care. The institutions have also cooperated with educational and health care establishments, as well as with the local community (in organising events, etc.). A procedure for the assignment and application of punishment for improper behaviour has been approved, and preventive discussions have been held with older children about their failure to discipline smaller children. The reduction or withdrawal of pocket money is not applied as a disciplinary measure or is applied in extreme cases, the allocation of pocket money to all children is ensured and training/discussions on the rational use of pocket money are conducted. A “Small Euro Day” is organised when children and social workers go to shopping centres where they get familiar with prices, promotion campaigns and health products, and are taught to make the correct choice. More attention has been devoted to education on the consumption of psychoactive substances (a plan of measures, as well as more events and classes have been provided for); children are supplied with the necessary hygiene items and other necessary things with account of their age, gender and other circumstances; if possible, children’s opinions are taken into consideration; the belongings of each child are marked with symbols; proper conditions are provided for doing homework; the missing supplies are replenished; the leisure activities are not divided by the gender and account is taken of the children’s comments on the quality of clubs and their preferences; and the anonymity of children’s inquiries is ensured (identical envelopes distributed to families are freely accessible, children throw them into a post box, The institutions have taken measures to implement the recommendations issued to them: they have employed psychologists, found out which employees treated children inappropriately, issued oral comments and notices and provided specialised services to children with behavioural and emotional disorders (established closer contacts with relatives, found carers for weekends, included children in the foreign visit programme, provided the service of an assistant teacher and art therapy, organised visits to day centres, increased the number of clubs, volunteers, etc., and approached the founder with respect to the additional positions of a psychologist and a special pedagogue and the funds for psychotherapist’s services). The 17