Report of the HRD on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2011 ✓✓ Regular training for the staff of the Centre to ensure that they are constantly developing their professional skills and that they are prepared to work with juveniles;. 3.4. Youth care centres and youth sociotherapy centres Systemic recommendations ✓✓ Eliminating the sanction in the form of transfer to another establishment; ✓✓ Specifying the duration of disciplinary sanctions and applying such sanctions with taking account for individual characteristics of a juvenile; ✓✓ Providing health care services out of sight and hearing range of non-medical staff. Recommendations for specific establishments ✓✓ Eliminating physical and psychological violence used by the staff; ✓✓ Eliminating the sanction in the form of deprivation of the juvenile of his/her rights or suspension of such rights; ✓✓ Ceasing to apply disciplinary measures which are not provided for in the Regulations; ✓✓ Eliminating all stigmatizing sanctions; ✓✓ To stop applying collective responsibility; ✓✓ Eliminating the sanction which consists in providing services for the Centre; ✓✓ Eliminating the sanction in the form of physical exercise; ✓✓ Defining more precisely the rules for isolating juveniles from the group, and ensuring that they are staying in the presence of an adult; ✓✓ Ensuring the freedom of conscience and religion to all juveniles, which includes the freedom to profess or to accept a religion by personal choice, the possibility to participate in religious practices, and the ban to compel anyone to participate in religious practices; ✓✓ Ensuring appropriate organisation of and access to health care for juveniles; ✓✓ Taking steps aimed at finding and employing a nurse; ✓✓ Providing preventive health care to juveniles; ✓✓ Creating a procedure for applying coercive measures which is adjusted to the applicable legislation, and diligently documenting the use of such coercive measures; ✓✓ Enabling detained juveniles to contact their siblings, relatives or other people from outside the establishment, and applying restrictions in this area only in line with the provisions of the law; ✓✓ Increasing the number of visits which juvenile residents are allowed to receive, and allowing them to hold telephone conversations; ✓✓ Increasing the number of leaves granted to juveniles and enabling juvenile residents to visit their homes during their first months at the establishment; ✓✓ Handling the correspondence of residents as provided for in the Act on j.d.p.; ✓✓ Abandoning the practice of monitoring telephone conversations of juvenile residents as well as visits they receive; 136