the parent educational group and at higher levels of treatment led by individual teachers. The treatment also takes place within health care provided by the general outpatient clinic of Radeče Community Health Centre on the basis of a contract. Individuals with mental problems are treated by the facility’s psychiatrist and occasionally by an external psychologist. An expert to deal with minors’ mental health in greater depth is not anticipated in the job classification. When examining the randomly selected files of a few minors, it was determined that individual work takes place regularly, and regular cooperation with the relevant social work centre and the minor’s family is also established if this is in the minor’s best interest. It was not possible to deduce from the documentation what expert methods of individual and group work were being implemented, including work approaches based on scientific evidence. It was also not evident how the assessment of the minor’s best interest is made in the case of more complex challenges, and how the work with the family (biological or foster) takes place. The NPM thus recommended that it would be sensible to form uniform vocational standards of work which would derive from the minor’s needs and consider the complexity of problems experienced by the minor. With regard to the proposed protocols and work standards, the Head Office of the Prison Administration of the Republic of Slovenia explained that work with minors in Radeče Juvenile Correctional Facility was governed by general acts on the implementation of the measure of placing a minor in a correctional facility (the ZIKS-1, the Rules on implementation of educational measure of committing a juvenile to a juvenile correction facility, house rules), and the work content is defined in the educational programme, which is the fundamental guideline for educational work with minors. The content of the educational programme is actually not evident from the minors’ personal files, as was established by the NPM, and it is impossible to directly deduce from them the protocols and guide61 2.6 VISIT TO JUVENILE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY We heard several complaints from the minors that the food is usually tasteless, of poor quality and frequently of insufficient quantity and so they are consequently hungry. The NPM advised that when preparing meals, instructors dedicate more attention to mentoring minors working in the kitchen in order to develop competence and skills to prepare high-quality, delicious, wholesome and diverse food. Radeče Juvenile Correctional Facility replied that work instructors together with the minors carry out practical parts of expert subjects and practical training in the kitchen, and prepare minors to obtain certificates of national vocational qualification for assistant cooks. The minors receive knowledge from various fields: use of appliances and working machinery, waste separation and caring for the maintenance of a clean environment; mechanical food processing; preparation of different dishes, etc. Under the mentorship of work instructors, the minors learn the basics of cooking, cleanliness and safety at work irrespective of whether they train in accordance with the education programme or have been appointed to work in the kitchen of Radeče Juvenile Correctional Facility, and gain positive work habits. The preparation of daily meals for minors and employees takes place simultaneously with the activities mentioned above. Under the mentorship of a work instructor, minors grow vegetables in the garden and the greenhouse. Vegetables and fruit from the orchard are used for daily preparation of high-quality and healthy food.