Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2012 bers frequently depended on the score obtained under the rehabilitation system or on the degree of socialisation, and thus was treated as a privilege of the juveniles, which they could lose if they infringed the regulations. Moreover, in some establishments the ban on contacts with friends and even family was explicitly included in the catalogue of sanctions98. The visiting team stressed that a juvenile should have the right to maintain contacts with both his/her family and people from outside the establishment as a rule. The only reasons for restricting or prohibiting contacts of a juvenile with people outside the establishment were stipulated in the abovementioned provision and concern only cases when such contact would pose a threat to the legal order or safety of the establishment, or could adversely affect the course of the ongoing proceedings or social reintegration of the juvenile. In such case, the director of the establishment is obliged to promptly notify the juvenile and the relevant family court about the reasons of his decision. The court may overrule the decision made by the director. Therefore, restricting contacts of the juveniles with their family or their peers, e.g. by not allowing them to make phone calls or receive correspondence from their friends, should also be deemed unacceptable. The NPM employees also recommended that juveniles should have ensured the intimacy allowing them to speak freely during visits and phone calls, i.e. that the right to privacy of the juveniles be respected. This concerns situations where a juvenile was forced to make phone calls within the hearing range of the tutor or when the visits by his/her parents took place in the presence of an employee of the establishment99. 6.  Educational, therapeutic, cultural and educational measures The visiting team paid attention to the execution of the right of juveniles to daily outdoor activities. Although the said right is provided for in the national legislation100, in several centres juveniles reported that they cannot go to the yard every day101. They explained that it depended on the tutor and on the number of interested juveniles. Each time the NPM representatives stressed that the personnel of an establishment had to ensure that the juveniles may spend some time Youth Care Centre in Cerekwica, Youth Sociotherapy Centre in Dobrodzień, Youth Care Centre in Sobótka. 99 Youth Care Centre in Brzeg Dolny, Youth Care Centre in Cerekwica. 100 Cf. Art. 17 of the Ordinance of the Minister of National Education of 12 May 2011 on types and detailed rules of operation of public establishments, on living conditions of children and juveniles in these establishments, and on the amount and rules of payment by parents (Dz. U. No 109, item 631). 101 Youth Care Centre in Brzeg Dolny, Youth Care Centre in Cerekwica, Youth Sociotherapy Centre in Dobrodzień, Youth Care Centre in Trzciniec. 98 50