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 37

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