2014-2015 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE residents wishing to leave a care institution and live independently in the community, care institutions were obligated to take steps and help such a person as well as make sure that he/she would be ensured appropriate living conditions and provided necessary services in the community, in addition, the deinstitutionalization process of care institutions which was underway currently would help to better assess how many and what services were accessible to persons willing to leave a care institution and live independently in the community as well as provide them; when conducting inspections, the Department of Supervision of Social Services always evaluated whether the environment of an institution was adapted to persons according to their needs and whether legal acts ensured transfer of orderly and clean mattresses and sheets to residents, however, the Ministry also noted that it had addressed social care institutions and would consider a necessity of improvement of legal acts. Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania (8), the Ministry of Health (1), the State Food and Veterinary Service (1), the Fire and Rescue Department and the Department of Supervision of Social Services (31). While providing information on the implementation of 31 (thirty-one) recommendations addressing the shortcomings specified above, the Department of Supervision of Social Services indicated that all the institutions listed in the Report would be included into a list of more risky institutions and a plan of care institutions to be assessed according to the relevance of information provided in the Report and, if need be, appropriate measures would be taken. The Ministry of Health also agreed with a recommendation provided by the Seimas Ombudsman regarding improvement of legal regulation, drew up draft amendments to legal acts and submitted them for approval to stakeholder institutions. However, several recommendations (4 out of 8) remained unimplemented. The Ministry of Social Security and Labour indicated that there was no necessity to improve legal regulation regarding the establishment of a higher minimum number of the staff, drawing up of guidelines for recording (description) of social work, the establishment of rights to living in a couple, sexual education and availability of contraceptives, or supplementation of the licensing procedure with the minimum fire safety requirements. According to the Ministry, current legal regulation is sufficient and ensures the provision of quality services of long-term social care. Yet another recommendation related to amendment of legal acts by providing for an obligation for social care institutions for adults to coordinate menus with territorial divisions of the State Food and Veterinary Service also received support from the director of the Service, however, he proposed to include such a requirement not into the Law on Food of the Republic of Lithuania but into another legal act. The Ministry of Social Security and Labour agreed in principle regarding 4 (four) recommendations indicating that institutions were encouraged to improve the competence of the staff in various ways, besides, the skills of a staff member of a care institution had to be improved taking into account his/her practical activities; if there were It is noteworthy that with regard to recommendations issued by the Seimas Ombudsmen, with which the institutions did not agree, further 16