1.3 Visits to institutions for the care and education of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders 1.3 Visits to institutions for the care and education of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders Situation Situation concerning the number of institutions for the care and education of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders (hereinafter referred to as the institutions) has not changed in comparison to year 2012. There are still 11 Institutions. Among these, there are ten Institutions falling under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports. There is one institution under the responsibility of the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities which has been established to provide training for children and young people with mental disorders who have been committed to a training institution for educational care by means of an educational measure. Adolescent persons are taken into such institutions on the basis of decisions issued by Centres for Social Work (for example, due to insecurity or risk within the family), court orders (in the form of an educational measure) or decisions on placement in an education programme. Number of visits and locations Five Institutions were visited in 2013: •M  alči Belič Youth Care Centre (hereinafter referred to as Malči Belič YCC), •P  lanina Residential Education Centre (hereinafter referred to as Planina REC), •K  ranj Residential Education Centre (hereinafter referred to as Kranj REC), •M  aribor Youth Care Centre (hereinafter referred to as Maribor YCC), • Slivnica pri Mariboru Residential Education Centre (hereinafter referred to as Slivnica pri Mariboru REC). This was our first visit to the first two institutions (with a prior announcement), and a follow-up visit to the latter three institutions (without any prior announcement). Organization of Institutions and recommendations by the NPM In Malči Belič YCC and Planina REC education is carried out in boarding facilities with a traditional educational model - in formative groups. While all adolescents living in Malči Belič YCC visit external primary schools in Ljubljana and its surroundings, there is an internal primary school organised within Planina REC with adjusted programme and with lower educational standard and lower vocational school (hereinafter referred to as LVS), because it is intended for adolescents with mild mental disorders. In LVS, adolescents can be educated for professions as assistant in technology processes, wood worker, biotechnology and care assistant, and for on-the-job training for kitchen, laundry, sewing and cleaning services. In March 2013, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia amended the constituting article, pursuant to which Planina REC got the opportunity for the organization of therapeutic groups, i.e. groups of adolescents diagnosed with mental disorders. By amending the constituting article, Planina REC got the opportunity to gain financial funds for employment of a psychiatrist and additional nurses, which is encouraging, because it enables the practice of health care, practice of social security with accommodation and practice of specialist out-patient treatment of adolescents with a mild mental disorder and adolescents diagnosed with psychiatric difficulties. However, by amending the constituting article, Planina REC lost its residential community which was organised in Postojna. This residential community was part of Logatec Education and Training Institution. Organization of Institutions that we visited once again, has not changed in comparison to the visit from two years ago. Two Institutions (Kranj REC and Maribor YCC) among the Institutions visited are organised only in the form of residential communities - in private houses or independent apartments in various locations. Slivnica pri Mariboru REC is still organised as a traditional residential education centre, because adolescents are arranged into formative groups. 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 67