82 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 EXAMPLES OF IMPORTANT STEPS TAKEN BY THE OMBUDSMAN IN 2014 Verbal recommendations made to institution managements Forcible measures: A number of institutions have been recommended to ensure that their staff receive a copy of the executive order on the use of force and that children and young people in care and their custodial parents are informed about the regulations of the executive order on the use of force, including the regulations about possible channels of complaint. Registration and reporting to the municipality of residence and the social supervision authorities if an institution decides to search the rooms of the children/young people were also recommended. Furthermore, recommendations to prepare a list of items confiscated from children/ young people and to give a copy of the list to the children/young people were also made. Follow-up visit After a visit to the accommodation facility ‘Fonden Kanonen’, the Ombudsman commented in October 2013 on the accommodation facility’s use of the so-called time-out. A follow-up visit concentrated on whether the accommodation facility was still making use of time-out in relation to young people. The case is pending. Own-initiative cases and requests for statements Forcible measures etc.: After a visit to the secure institution ‘Koglen’, the Ombudsman took up a case on his own initiative about some of the measures taken by ‘Koglen’ to prevent smuggling of euphoriants into the institution – for instance by washing the young people’s clothes and confiscating their jackets and shoes. In addition to this, the Ombudsman asked the authorities to explain their authority to lock the young people up in their rooms. The case is pending.