In 2015 Commission 6, which is responsible for Traiskirchen Initial Reception Centre, carried out six visits to the facility, which is designed to accommodate 1,800 people and which in January of this year housed 1,100 unaccompanied minor refugees alone. Although reliable figures are not available, the overall goal is to provide adequate accommodation for 8,000 unaccompanied minor refugees. The commissions focusing on unaccompanied minor refugees also visited the federal support facilities in Reichenau an der Rax (Lower Austria), Erdberg (Vienna), Thalham (Upper Austria) and Leoben (Styria). The situation at the Traiskirchen Initial Reception Centre was particularly critical from July to September 2015. In August, a delegation consisting of the commission members and the AOB spoke to unaccompanied minor refugees who were living as homeless persons and subsequently in tents on the grounds of the Traiskirchen Initial Reception Centre. Also affected were children and adolescents who had not even been registered and who were sleeping out in the vineyards or on the ground directly adjacent to the grounds of the Traiskirchen Initial Reception Centre, or spending days with helpful citizens of Traiskirchen. There were various reports of encroachments on these children and adolescents. Had it not been for the assistance of private individuals and civil society, they would have had to spend high summer without food and water, wearing the clothes they had worn throughout their period of flight. Homeless minors All unaccompanied minor refugees, to whom sleeping space could not be assigned in a building, were in a position of serious endangerment in terms of children’s welfare. This included 14-yearolds and children and adolescents who urgently required medical or therapeutic care. It was thanks to the city of Vienna that during a period of urgent need, all young unaccompanied minor refugees, along with several older girls, were transferred from the Traiskirchen Initial Reception Centre to an accommodation which fulfils the reception conditions under the Basic Provision Agreement. During this phase, Commission 6 and civil society provided lists of names, made contact with the regional government of Lower Austria as the locally responsible authority for child and youth welfare and protection, and cross-checked them against lists held by the district authority of the city of Baden. For all cases known to the NPM by name, the district authority took action on the grounds that delay would involve risk and accepted these children and adolescents into Lower Austrian accommodation which fulfils the reception conditions. In most cases, places were made available in newly established institutions and facilities. The others were given at least a bed within the Traiskirchen Initial Reception Centre. Several minor refugees for whom individual solutions were being sought could no longer be found at the Traiskirchen Initial Reception Centre by the competent authorities for child and youth welfare and protection, as they had fled onward in a state of despair. In some cases, it was possible to complete Help provided on caseby-case basis in instances where endangerment already exists 68