67 Morten Engberg Monitoring Director, Head of Monitoring Division In 2012, the Ombudsman submitted a number of key issues to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration concerning the rights of young people in care. The background was a number of monitoring visits to residences in 2011 and 2012. The visits revealed that some residences used measures against young people which cannot be used against other citizens without consent unless there is a special statutory basis for it, in legal language called the use of compulsion. Urine samples One example was the use of urine samples. Several of the young people who spoke with the Ombudsman and his team during the visits said that they had been asked to provide a urine sample in various situations. These included cases where a young person who had previously had drug abuse problems had been on a visit away from the residence or where the young person’s behaviour gave rise to a specific suspicion, for instance that drugs had been taken. However, urine samples were also sometimes requested simply because the young person’s caseworker wanted a test. As a starting point, urine samples were provided on a voluntary basis. However, it turned out that at some residences a refusal to provide a urine sample had consequences for the young people. Thus, several residences regarded a urine test as positive if a young person refused to provide a sample, i.e. as proof that the young person had taken drugs. This could in itself have consequences and, for instance, result in the young person being forced to have close contact with employees at the residence, such as sleeping in a room with an employee of the same sex. Another consequence could be that the young person was not allowed