2.3.5 Positive findings One-year project to process and implement recommendations completed During two visits to a youth home in late 2012, Commission 2 criticised conditions in the pedagogical work that violated human rights due to structural deficits (increased staff fluctuation and concurrent difficulties in recruitment, permanent staff shortages, long-term sick leave) and associated overload of existing staff. In September 2013, upon the recommendation of the NPM, an interdisciplinary project financed by the Upper Austrian regional government was initiated in order to improve the situation for children and adolescents and for staff and to develop preventive standards that would apply to all three Upper Austrian regional homes. Structural deficits The project team was comprised of employees of the Upper Austrian regional government, the head of the home, a legal expert from the AOB, a member of Commission 2 and the child and youth advocate of Upper Austria. The final report for the project with brief descriptions of 47 agreed upon implementation measures, the key items of which had been jointly developed, has been available since October 2014. The following immediate measures were put into effect permanently: Development of preventive standards  Reduction of the maximum group size in group homes from eleven to nine,  Obligatory ongoing full utilisation of the staff employment plan,  No acceptance of adolescents as long as the staff employment plan has not been fully utilised or the maximum group size has not been exceeded,  Maximum admission quota of 15% of minors from other Laender,  Introduction or actual permission of part time work for pedagogues,  Psychological supervision according to NEW professional standards,  Participation of youth/child care workers in the admission process,  Full meeting of the juveniles,  Revision of all house and group rules in a participatory process with the minors. 67