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. 61

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