response to the preliminary report, the institution has already implemented nine and accepted 16 recommendations. It was recommended that KrRTI see to the regular updating of the website and the compliance of the submitted and presented information on programmes and individual activities. We recommended that the basement of Črnava RG be tidied up, appropriately furnished, and used as originally intended. The surroundings should be maintained and the possibility of actively using the new outdoor gym should be studied. Unkempt recreation and calm down area We recommended that when the institution comes across a lack of response from an individual social work centre, it should notify the director of the competent social work centre, as we need to be aware that priority treatment must be ensured, especially if the expert group handling the case establishes that delay might result in irreparable consequences for the child/adolescent34. We recommended that they establish closer connections with university lecturers and researchers in psychology, pedagogy, sociology, social work, and other similar fields, so as to be able to introduce new work methods and see to the professional growth of employees. In this respect, it would also be sensible to prepare institutional and non-institutional methods of caring for and treating children and adolescents who are unable to stay with their primary family. The work methods must be continuously checked and adapted to the arising needs and the deprivations of children and adolescents. We further recommended that KrRTI set up a system of recording effective measures with a description of the situation which calmed down the child or adolescent, as this can represent an important database of knowledge for future action and might help other expert associates35. We recommended that employees sign the records of daily observations and that they consider adding positive observations and achievements or positive examples of cooperation, as reviewing the documents on an individual child, a positive note was missing. Furthermore: • We expressed our concern over cases where a child who is still in primary education is dismissed from class early due to behavioural problems, and upon returning to the residential group (RG) their teacher is not present. We welcomed the immediate responsiveness of KrRTI and supported the intensive cooperation between the two institutions. We also recommended to KrRTI to hold detailed discussions with the management and expert associates in primary and secondary schools. KrRTI explained that this only happens from 8 to 10 a.m. when no working hours of expert associates are anticipated, as the children are mostly away at school. This also happens if the morning teacher is in a 34  KrRTI explained and pointed out the lack of programmes for individual, and especially more complex, forms of emotional and behavioural disorders. They emphasised that despite good cooperation with the majority of directors of social work centres, they cannot effectively solve all cases. 35  KrRTI explained that two documents were in the phase of preparation or in the last phase of adoption, i.e. the House Rules of residential groups and the Educational Programme in KrRTI, which detail the measures to be implemented with individual situations occurring in the RG. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2017 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 85