The Seimas Ombudsman carried out the investigation into the access of employees of adult social care institutions (social employees, nurses and their assistants) to vocational training and improvement of their professional competences on human rights problems and assessed how many subjects (themes) related to the concept of human rights, various aspects of the implementation of human rights and the mechanism for ensuring these rights are incorporated in vocational training and professional competence improvement programmes for employees of adult social care institutions (social employees, nurses and their assistants) and whether these training programmes include relevant topics related to the highest standards of protection of human rights (see more on page 17).