2.5 VISIT TO THE ALIENS CENTRE In 2019, the NPM conducted an unannounced visit to the Aliens Centre in Postojna (the Centre), which operates under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior (MNZ). The Centre provides accommodation and care for foreigners (if these fail to meet the conditions to reside in Slovenia) for the time necessary until they are returned to their country of origin or the country they came from. During the visit, we noticed that the Centre realised several NPM recommendations made in the past (rooms in the men’s unit were renovated, which significantly improved their living conditions; girls and women are enabled unlimited and uncontrolled access to hygiene products; collection boxes for submitting complaints were installed at all units with a suitable (multilingual) label of their purpose; foreigners have more frequent access to the Internet; food is adjusted to the cultural specifics of people living in the Centre; the anticipated time for external visitors is published on the website where the presentation of the Centre and other information can also be found). On the occasion of the visit, a total of ten recommendations were given, of which five were targeted, one systemic and four general. Three recommendations referred to living conditions, one to the discussion and forms of work, two to staff and record-keeping, and one to the discussion and forms of work, and general matters.The systemic recommendation involves activities that the Centre carries out so that children/unaccompanied foreign minors would no longer be accommodated in the Centre. During the visit, we also urged finding the systemic solution as soon as possible so that children/minors would not be accommodated in a closed institution such as the Centre (not even for a shorter time) (more can be found in the 2019 Ombudsman’s Annual Report). According to available information, 245 unaccompanied minors and 66 accompanied were detained in the Centre in 2018. Some 310 children, of whom 278 were unaccompanied, were accommodated in this institution in 2019. As per the Government Office for the Support and Integration of Migrants (the Office), the systemic arrangement for accommodation and discussion of unaccompanied minors had not yet been adopted by the end of 2019. Together with the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry 55 2.5 VISIT TO THE ALIENS CENTRE The purpose of the visit was to examine the living conditions of foreigners, their treatment and the realisation of recommendations from previous visit(s). We visited the Centre on 10 December 2019, and the report on the visit with NPM recommendations was drafted and submitted to the Ministry of the Interior for consideration on 8 January 2020. When writing this report (31 January 2020), we have not yet received the Ministry’s reply to the recommendations, and we thus only provide data on the number and type of NPM recommendations, some of which are particularly highlighted. All recommendations given when visiting this institution and all others made in 2019 are also published on the Ombudsman’s website.