Child and youth welfare facilities limit for the accommodation of children from other Laender. Lower Austria announced that it intends to follow this recommendation. XX  There must be an upper limit for the admission of children form other Laender. XX  The lack of special places shall not constitute the reason for placement outside a minor’s own Land. 2.3.6 Returning children to their families Sufficient and suitable measures Pursuant to the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms guarantees parents that sufficient and suitable measures are taken to reunite the family after their child has lived out of home. As the NPM has determined several times, however, work with the families varies greatly from Land to Land. Some facilities take over the cooperation with the parents themselves; others purchase social services as a supplement. Occasionally, social workers assume the task of supporting the families to the point where the child can return home. The system that the competent authorities for child and youth welfare and protection opt for is irrelevant. What is important is that extra, specially trained staff is available for this additional task. Working with parents can only succeed if there is more staff. Savings possible through faster returns Children could return to their families faster through continuous work with the parents and the family system as well as the regular monitoring of development within the families. This could help save costs, as full residential care is considerably more expensive than family outreach work in the long term. Working with parents in Burgenland anchored in the regulation Since October 2019 the regulation on the Children’s and Youth Assistance Act in Burgenland stipulates a mandatory half equivalent of full-time employment per facility for work relating to biography and outreach to the parents. This improvement in quality should also be reflected in an increase in the daily allowances. In the new regulation on the Children’s and Youth Assistance Act in Lower Austria, additional hours for family outreach work are mandatory, however, only for semi-residential care. An expansion of family outreach to residential facilities is planned. In Vorarlberg, working with parents is possible through the facility or non-residential care in the form of parental support or one available specialist in child and adolescent welfare. Tyrol obliged all facilities to actively involve those parents who have opted for the standard cost model. In the other Laender, working with parents is now an obligatory part of the care concepts. However, it is only realised within the framework of available 77