conducting screenings is varied – they are performed where free screening tests are
carried out.
The NPM established cases of pregnant and girls who have just given birth
accommodated in RBS - village of Podem and SEBS - village of Dragodanovo. At a
certain stage of pregnancy on the basis of the risk specified after a consultation the
pregnant is transferred from the boarding school and is accommodated in a hospital in
which to give birth. After birth the mother and the child stay in the Unit "Mother and
Baby", where they remain until the baby become 6 months old. After this period the
mother returns to the boarding school and the child in most cases is referred for care in
a home for medical and social care for children (HMSCC ).
The NPM team found that most of the staff have a limited understanding of
what constitutes a disability. For disability is assumed only physical disability and to
children with communication difficulties, learning difficulties, etc. specificities in the
development of not paying due attention to the situation and according to their needs
and do not take adequate measures to meet them.
Administrative and technical capacity
The main conclusion that can be drawn is that the whole system of the
boarding institutions does not work in favour of its beneficiaries. The child is not
placed in its centre. The directors of the boarding schools are put in the absurd position
to take care mainly for filling the working time, the number of the hours and lecture
hours of teachers and carers. This means that the system has no capacity to deal with
problems for which it has been created. It can not meet the public expectations for
preventive, training and educational activities aimed at children and young delinquents.
It is striking also the lack of regulation for the appointment of social
workers in these institutions. The staff is generally demotivated. The role of the social
worker in this kind of institutions is key to the acquisition of social knowledge and skills
by children and young people. Profile and qualification of the employees to a large
extent do not meet the needs of the target group. The opportunity to interact with
external social services, which could fill this gap is missing.
Another major problem related to the administrative capacity is the lack of
staff to accompany the children and young people when travelling on vacation.
This leads to an extremely worrying situation minors and juveniles to travel alone to
and from the boarding institutions.
In terms of the coordination between different institutions related to SEBS and
RBS, it is important to note that the representatives of the Ministry of Interior inspectors from the Children's Pedagogical Rooms (CPR), and local commissions
to individual municipalities do not have the capacity to monitor behavioural and
educational level of the children for whom they give characteristics, including to
minors and juveniles in order for them to be able to benefit from the legal possibility of
vacation. Practice established in all RBS and SEBS is they to be attended by individual
inspectors of CPR once a year. This entails situations where children with excellent
results from the education process and respecting the established order in the boarding
institutions to be refused a vacation. The Ombudsman's teams came across refusals,
which stated that "the social environment in the family has not changed." The latter is
definitely inadmissible and unacceptable, since such findings are related to the problems
that fall outside the children themselves. Responsibility to correct such deficiencies and
assist in social problems falls on the units with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.
The main conclusion that NPM made in connection with those problems is that
the investment of resources (financial, technical and human) in the system of SEBS
and RBS is inappropriate. The efforts of the authorities should be focused entirely
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