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The Juvenile Facility shall ensure that correctional groups include maximum 10 wards.
In its future work, the Corrections Department shall make official notes to indicate whether
centres for social work have presented the treatment programme to the wards’
parents/guardians. In cases where the treatment programme has not been presented to
parents/guardians, such note will state the reasons for this. These notes shall be inserted in the
wards’ files.
To ensure the drafting of a relevant bylaw, the Juvenile Facility shall submit to the
Administration for Enforcement of Penal Sanctions a draft document setting out the rules and
levels of the scoring system which meet the demands of ward categorisation at the Juvenile
Facility.
In their future work, the corrections staff of the Juvenile Facility will make official notes of the
observations and proposals concerning possible progression of a ward to the next level made by
multidisciplinary team members involved in the work with a ward after each session, or the
reasons why the conditions for the ward’s progression have not been met. These official notes
shall be inserted in the wards’ files.
When a ward is reassigned from the Open-type Unit to the Intensive Work Unit, the corrections
staff shall cooperate with other team members to review the original treatment plan and shall
present the revised treatment plan to the warden for endorsement and signature. The corrections
staff shall monitor and evaluate on a regular basis the implementation of all activities envisaged
by the revised treatment programme and shall make a note after each activity.
The Intensive Work Unit should provide intensive, varied and comprehensive treatment suited
to the wards’ developmental needs, with more educational activities focused on correcting
problematic behaviour and returning to the Open-type Unit.
In their future work, the corrections staff of the Juvenile Facility shall make notes after any type
of group activity to record the title of the workshop, the names of those who participated, the
subject matter covered by the workshop and the purpose of the workshop; also, wards should
be given an opportunity to voice their comments and observations.
The existing Scoring and Ranking Rules need to be amended with regard to the benefits and
privileges available to wards. Specifically, a clear statement of the benefits associated with the
first level is needed.
The Juvenile Facility and the Administration for Enforcement of Penal Sanctions worked
together with representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological
Development to ensure that the diplomas issued to the Juvenile Facility’s wards at the end of
their vocational training courses at the Facility are recognised as valid and equivalent to the
diplomas received from regular VET schools, to enable the Juvenile Facility’s wards to compete
in the job market for specific jobs on an equal footing with other members of the community.
In their future work, instructors will produce weekly reports on the level of effort put in by the
wards and their progression in vocational training and shall submit such reports to a corrections
officer for review. Each such report shall be discussed in the sessions of the multidisciplinary
team and decisions shall be made to revise the treatment where appropriate.
The Juvenile Facility shall undertake measures to ensure that female wards have equal access to
and use of the gymnasium and the exercise areas within the perimeter of the Juvenile Facility as
their male counterparts.
To ensure a sound, varied and continual reform process, the wards who are temporarily placed
at the Intensive Work Unit should be allowed to participate in culture and art activities and other
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