1.3 Visits to institutions for the care and education of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders Executive Summary The NPM believes that residential education centres fulfil their mission in a suitable manner. There were few complaints against the treatment of employees in institutions as well as claims on violation of human rights expressed by adolescents in the interviews held. Praises and contentment were in greater extent expressed by adolescents in both juvenile homes which were visited once again (Kranj REC and Maribor YCC). Great achievement in 2013 is a possibility to perform specialist out-patient treatment of adolescents with mild mental disorder and adolescents diagnosed with psychiatric difficulties in Planina REC. Working with young people experiencing emotional and behavioural disorders in residential communities is, as established by the NPM, a more suitable organisational model than the traditional organisational model. It is also proposed by the NPM to discuss the problem, whether it is appropriate to organise formative groups in such manner that groups include adolescents with criminal past and adolescents who are taken into institutions on the basis of decisions issued by Centres for Social Work due to insecurity or risk within the family, educational and behavioural negligence, poor educational effectiveness and other reasons. Renewed organisation of the practice of supplementary qualification in social and pedagogic science also enables graduates of other study courses, not only social pedagogues, to be employed in residential education centres, which is reasonable. Reduction of financial funds from the Ministry of education, Science and Sports for capital costs of the repair and renewal of fittings is a very serious matter, because the residential setting in the institutions which was pleasant until now, may deteriorate in the next few years. Modernization of education programme is obligatory, and amendment with contents and methods for young people who have been committed to an institution on the basis of an educational measure would also be appropriate. The institutions have modernized and improved their web sites, all of them have published rules of residence and house rules on their web sites. The recommendation of the NPM that the individualized programme is signed by an adolescent, is being taken into consideration as well. There are some deficiencies regarding supervision over the practice of education programme which is ordered by ZIKS-1, because of the problem in delimitation of the powers of different departmental inspectorates of four ministries. Establishment of single legal bases for the operation of all residential education centres is obligatory, and also for control and herewith the authorities of inspectorates. Moreover, they are supposed to use professions in modernization of education programme in order to try to delimit the doctrines of social-pedagogic, health, social and penological professions. The possibility of refusal of an individual adolescent for admittance into an institution or for his/her early discharge needs to be regulated by appropriate legal provisions. Duties of parents who have kept their parental authorities should also be defined more clearly. It is necessary to establish the suitability of a required education for working with adolescents who are taken into institutions according to the courts’ decisions (adolescents with criminal past). Because the Centres for Social Work often have problems during admittance of an individual adolescent into an institution, an interdisciplinary discussion on the reasonableness to establish a triage diagnostic centre had been proposed by the NPM. Beside that, it is proposed that spare capacities be published on the websites of individual institutions. There was also no progress in an issue regarding adolescents with psychiatric difficulties and very aggressive behaviour which are not being cared for properly. Hospitalization at the closed wards of psychiatric hospitals for adults is not an appropriate solution. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2013 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 73