Child and youth welfare facilities requested the Land Lower Austria to continue to bear the cost of therapies that are otherwise not available. The Land Carinthia informed the NPM that the Regulation on the Children’s and Youth Assistance Act would be completed in summer 2020. This had not been enacted up to the time of completing this report at the end of January 2021. Standards for important areas of socio-pedagogical care such as the qualification of the staff have thus been neither defined nor transparently presented again in 2020. Carinthian regulation still in preparation X The Burgenland regional government should quickly raise the daily allowances in order to enable the amendments to the Child and Youth Welfare Facilities Regulation. X The regional government of Lower Austria should increase the care ratio for sociopedagogical inclusive shared accommodations and align the daily allowances with the increased demand. X The regional government of Carinthia is requested yet again to enact the announced Regulation on Children’s and Youth Assistance Act. 2.3.5 No nationwide crisis placements when children‘s wellbeing is in acute danger There should be an immediate crisis placement of minors when emergency measures are necessary due to acute danger in families, which makes it impossible for them to stay in their home. The crisis care is designated to provide safety and protection of the minors, de-escalation of the family situation and the development of viable solutions with all involved. In order to identify the risks to and needs of the children, there is an objectively substantiated evaluation of the life situation and the personal and social resources of the child as well as the familial protection and risk factors in the form of an assessment and medical history. Comprehensive evaluation during crises in the family There have been crisis centres in every district in Vienna for about 25 years. These are designed for eight minors and assess the risks to the children’s wellbeing over a period of approx. eight weeks. The crisis centres have been overcrowded most of the time for many years. In some exceptional cases, Commissions 4 and 5 even found an occupancy of 14 children. The reason for the overcrowding is a lack of crisis places and excessively long waiting times for follow-up care places. Suitable places cannot be found for minors with severe traumatisation in particular. They have to wait for months, sometimes even a year, for a suitable place. Vienna crisis centres overcrowded most of the year The NPM has thus been demanding the expansion of therapeutic care places in Vienna for a long time. Another way of relieving the overload on 76