leisure activities – likely to promote their personal development and responsible participation in a free society. Autonomy and Sexuality. The inspectors observed that few initiatives were conducted on this issue in institutions catering for minors, despite the fact that their age, and in certain cases the offences which led them to be sent to the institution, would justify the putting in place of preventive actions and the provision of information, or even access to contraception 98. Apart from this fact, professionals working with adolescents cannot be unaware of the social questions regularly echoed in the media: the influence of pornography on the commencement of sexual relations among minors, the calling into question of equality between women and men. It is therefore less a question of promoting sexual relations, which will inevitably occur, than of implementing initiatives enabling adolescents to engage in a sex life in a responsible manner. Apart from actions that may be conducted within the framework of care, the CGLPL recommends the organisation of educational initiatives providing information on sex. 2.2.2 Support Towards Becoming Autonomous, a Demanding Objective, Dependent upon the Quality of Teams and of Support from the Authorities In order for placements or imprisonment to constitute something more than a mere period of exclusion, in order to enable the young person to really learn to become autonomous and come out a little more mature and equipped with a minimum of self-confidence and confidence in others, without which there can be no real integration into society, it appears necessary to ensure that certain conditions are respected. On the part of the institution catering for the young person: 98 - in the case of CEFs in particular, an educational project that places an educational approach at the centre of its objectives and accepts the risks thereof: there cannot be any education without granting a minimum of trust nor, on the other hand, without some mistakes; projects of this kind need to be defended in the face of the supervising authorities and partners as a whole, the members of steering committees; adopting a position of this kind does not appear to be easy, it being much simpler to prohibit than to support; thus, in one institution where the tutors spent much of their time opening and closing doors, a director remarked: “previously we placed the emphasis on “closed” in “CEF” [literally “closed educational centre”], we tend somewhat to forget that we are here to engage in education, we cannot limit ourselves to prohibitions; but the team has difficulty in keeping up; and so do the authorities”. Insofar as compliance with strictly penal constraints allows, it would be desirable for EPMs to reflect upon the manner in which they could, - apart from teaching and the putting in place of traditional activities -, intensify the provision of educational measures; - qualified, coordinated, stable, beneficent teams, capable of building strong educational ties with the minors: minors, whether or not they are offenders, need to feel that they matter to somebody; making somebody happy and being acknowledged in return is essential, but because these young people have complex and painful backgrounds, the educational teams in particular, need to have a sound theoretical frame of reference, enabling them to make hypotheses, A question that arises in CEFs, at the time of outings of young people over fifteen years of age. 118