After the discussion and seeking of solutions to improve their situation, the following conclusions were adopted unanimously: • • • • • Children and adolescents are a particularly sensitive group. Detention by deprivation of personal liberty is not a suitable measure with which to treat children and adolescents. Detention must thus always be the last possible solution and all other measures should be applied first. The staff entrusted with the care of children and adolescents must have suitable skills and knowledge about their special needs and must strive to establish trust with them and provide all necessary assistance. Children and adolescents must have access to basic education and other training programmes. Qualified individuals must plan for the release of children and adolescents and their treatment after discharge. They must also have access to suitable health, psychological and social care provided by suitably qualified experts. Children and adolescents must be informed of their rights in a language they understand and in a manner that is understandable. At the end of the meeting, the representatives of the SEE NPM Network unanimously approved the Croatian NPM to hold the presidency of the network in 2020. 1.4 REALISATION OF NPM RECOMMENDATIONS 1.5.1 Monitoring procedures for the return of foreigners While observing Article 69 of the Foreigners Act (ZTuj-2), Caritas Slovenia, which also cooperates with the Slovenian NPM when implementing its tasks and powers, monitors the (involuntary) procedures for the return of foreigners from Slovenia to their countries of origin on the basis of a public call. The monitoring involves the observance of police operations when removing foreigners from the country, i.e. in the period before departure, during the flight or other means of transport, during transit stops, and upon the arrival and admission of foreigners to the country of return. The Ombudsman or the Slovenian NPM has not yet carried out any direct monitoring of the return of foreigners yet, but it has been intensively preparing for this task recently as these cases also involve the deprivation of liberty. We have also joined the initiative to establish a mechanism for the effective and independent monitoring of forced returns. For this purpose, Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih attended the Meeting on the functioning of the FRONTEX pool of monitors or the Meeting of Ombudsman/NPM institutions to remedy the absence of an external, independent governance of the pool of forced-return monitors that was held on 23 May 2019 in Nafplion, Greece. The meeting was organised by the Greek Human Rights Ombudsman with support of the Council of Europe and was attended by the representatives of human rights ombudsman institutions or national preventive mechanisms from countries whose staff participates in the pool of forced return monitors of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), i.e. Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange work experience in the field of monitoring deportations, establish deficiencies and a mechanism for effective and independent monitoring of 20 THE REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA ON IMPLEMENTING THE TASKS OF THE NPM