38 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MONITORING ACTIVITIES – ADULTS THEME FOR 2017 The social psychiatric sector – with focus on – safety for residents at social psychiatric residential facilities  ector transfers and cooperation between residential facilities and the psychiatric – s sector The Ombudsman’s monitoring teams visited 13 social psychiatric residential facili­ ties and seven psychiatric wards in connection with the theme for 2017. Important conclusions  t all residential facilities visited, at least one resident felt unsafe at times due to – A other residents’ behaviour. – C  ooperation agreements between the individual residential facility and the psychi­ atric sector have a good effect. The Ombudsman generally recommends – t hat social psychiatric residential facilities systematically record incidents involving violence and threats among residents and that they analyse data for the purpose of prevention etc. – t hat social psychiatric residential facilities draw up written guidelines on how to handle violence and threats among residents (anti-violence policies) – t hat social psychiatric residential facilities systematically record admissions to and discharges from psychiatric wards which they consider undesirable – t hat cooperation agreements are made between social psychiatric residential facili­ ties/the municipality and the psychiatric treatment sector/the region about admis­ sions, hospital stays and discharges Specific recommendations (extracts) can be found in the table on pages 42-53. Reports on the themes for our monitoring visits in recent years can be found at www.ombuds­manden.dk by clicking the globe icon, selecting ‘English’ and choosing the heading ‘Publications’. Please also read the article ‘Residential facilities in the social psychiatric sector must be safe – also for residents’ on pages 30-35.