Annual Report 2015 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism
Bedroom in the Teresa de Calcuta CMI (Madrid)
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Injury reports
§271 AR 2014 and study of
Injury reports on people
deprived of their liberty (2014)
79. Neither the existing injury report forms in the majority of facilities
visited nor their referral to the judicial authority meet the Recommendations of the Ombudsman. The administrations concerned have accepted
the criteria of this institution and adopted the relevant measures. The Sograndio CMI stands out as an exemplar of good practice in this regard.
Psychological and
psychiatric care
§268 AR 2014
80. In both the Pinaret and Las Moreras CMI it was concluded that the
level of psychological and psychiatric intervention should be boosted.
In some of the interviews with minors in the latter facility they recalled having traumatic backgrounds, a fact which did not seem to be being addressed through psychotherapy beyond behavioural management. This
must be rectified. The criteria of this institution have been accepted in both
cases.
Therapeutic detention
§269 AR 2014
81. The Bahía de Cádiz, Es Pinaret and Las Moreras CMI lacked a specific programme for minors under therapeutic detention. Such a programme would enable greater detection of and better specialist care for
psychopathological disorders in a more regulated way, along with development of individual and group psychotherapies. The competent
departments have accepted this conclusion. The implementation of the
therapeutic model used in the Marcelo Nessi CMI should be highlighted.
Personnel
§272 and 273 AR 2014
82. The lack of, or changes to, personnel have a direct impact on the
care given to minors. In the visit to the Es Pinaret CMI it was observed that
there were no educators in some of the residences, and minors were found
alone in their room with the door shut. The Department of Family and Social Services of the Government of the Balearic Islands has reported a
planned increase in staff which enables an appropriate ratio of service
users to employees. In the Sograndio CMI, changes in staff allocations as
well as sick leave gave rise to repeated changes to mentors, with one minor having up to 5 mentors. In the Virgen de Valvanera CMI there is no
mentor figure and each educator rotates around the residences. This
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