the national board of institutional care
organisation, and must therefore ensure, inter alia, that individual homes are
provided with the adequate resources to carry out transportations.30
5.3 Case where responses from the National Board of
Institutional Care have been requested
The Parliamentary Ombudsman did not request any responses in 2019. The
Parliamentary Ombudsman did, however, request responses in 2018 following
two inspections. The responses were received in 2019. The Parliamentary
Ombudsman requested responses on the following issues:
• Rain shelters in institution’s exercise yards (the special residential home for
substance abusers Fortunagården).
• Routine for follow-up of transportations with judicial assistance (the special residential home for young people Johannisberg).
Rain shelters in institutions’ exercise yards
Following the inspection of the special residential home for substance abusers
Fortunagården in September 2018, the Parliamentary Ombudsman urged
the National Board of Institutional Care to provide one of its home’s exercise
yards with a rain shelter. In view of the new rules on the right to daily outdoor
access, the Parliamentary Ombudsman deemed it necessary for the National
Board of Institutional Care to make an inventory of all its institutions’ exercise yards. This was to find out which other exercise yards need to be provided
with rain shelters. The National Board of Institutional Care responded that
a standard rain shelter solution has now been developed for the institutions’
exercise yards and will continuously provide rain shelter for the institutions’
exercise yards. The work was expected to be completed in the first quarter of
2020. The Parliamentary Ombudsman stated that the measures were adequate
and closed the case.31
Routine for follow-up of assisted transportations
During the inspection of the special residential home for young people Johannisberg in October 2018, the home’s management stated that it was considering introducing a routine for follow-up conversations with the young
individuals after they had been transported by police or prison officers
(assisted transportations). The Parliamentary Ombudsman stated that the National Board of Institutional Care has an obligation to offer the young people
follow-up conversations after it enforces a decision on, for example, segregation. The purpose of these conversations is, inter alia, for the young people to
be given the opportunity to express their opinions on the coercive measure
30 See the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s decision on 4 February 2020, ref. no. 1337-2019.
31 See the Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s decision of 22 August 2019, ref. no. O 51-2019.
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