| 97 Other activities • The Ombudsman opened a case about the Central Denmark Region’s practice of making voluntary agreements with children and young people in secure residential institutions that they would hand over their clothes for washing on arrival at the institution with a view to, among other things, degrading or destroying any illegal drugs hidden in the clothes. Over the course of the case, the Region decided to stop this practice with reference to the Ombudsman’s enquiry and a monitoring report from the local social supervisory authority according to whose assessment the Region did not have statutory authority for its practice. On Other results that basis, and because the Act on Adult Re• The Department of Prisons and Probation has sponsibility for Children and Young Persons in emphasised the documentation requirements Placement Facilities had been changed in the in cases involving the use of pepper spray. This meantime, the Ombudsman decided to close has been done on the basis of a statement from the case. the Ombudsman. (News story published on • On 1 February 2019 new rules on education 21 March 2019). provision for inmates of compulsory school • In meetings in 2017 and 2018 the Ombudsman age came into force. According to the rules, discussed a number of issues with the Ministry inmates (remand prisoners and inmates serof Health as a follow-up on the thematic report ving a sentence) of compulsory school age are from 2016 on children and young people in the entitled to schooling which measures up to psychiatric sector. The Ministry then took the what is ordinarily required in primary and lower following initiatives: secondary schools. The rules were introduced - Information material was prepared for chilin continuation of a case regarding conditions dren and young people and their relatives on for 15-17-year old inmates in Prison and Probathe use of force and their rights in the psychition Service institutions which the Ombudsman atric sector, in collaboration with the National had opened on his own initiative. (News stories Council for Children and the Danish Mental published on 5 September 2017, 4 July 2018 Health Fund. and 26 March 2019). - Guidance on the use of force etc. was clarified and spelled out in greater detail, among other things in relation to recording use of belt restraints during stomach tube feeding and in relation to medical assessment of children and young people who fall asleep while immobilised with belt restraints. (News story published on 23 January 2019). • Meetings with foreign (including Nordic) ombudsmen or ‘national preventive mechanisms’ etc., with discussion and exchange of experience • Meeting with the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, etc. (SPT) • Meeting with delegation from the European Council’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) • Meetings with national monitoring authorities with discussion and exchange of experience