Eight of the Social Code. The Clearing Agency has six closed places and was fully-occupied at the time of the inspection visit. The Commission inspected the closed wing with rooms, sanitary facilities, group rooms and the kitchen, as well as the segregation room (time-out room). It spoke with the head of the facility, with a psychological psychotherapist and an educationalist. The Commission also spoke to three residents. The head of the facility, as well as a staff member of the specialist educational service, were available to the Commission as contacts during the entire visit. Since the visit took place very late in the year, no statement from the Bavarian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Families and Women had yet been received by the editorial deadline of this report. Positive findings The facility makes a very good overall impression: The accommodation groups were very comfortable and friendly, the children and juveniles’ rooms were large enough, and were light and suitably furnished. It is particularly worth mentioning the highly-structured, clear pedagogicaltherapeutic concept, which the Joint Commission found convincing overall. The Clearing Agency is also adequately staffed. This facilitates treatment that is specific to disorders. The relatively short stay of the children and juveniles, which is between six and eight months, is obviously well used. Cooperation with the psychiatric out-patient department and the psychiatric clinic works very well according to the convincing description of the head. The Joint Commission considers it to be particularly positive that the segregation room is only used for very short periods in each instance (a few minutes), and that the accommodated child or juvenile is under uninterrupted observation. The very size of the room does not permit accommodation for longer periods or indeed over night. It is too small to lie down in. Recommendations of the Joint Commission Information on the applicable rules (prison rules, group rules, sanction measures), as well as the rights and duties of the accommodated children and juveniles, should be put down in writing and easy to reach. What is more, they should be worded in a way that is both clear, friendly and polite, as well as suited to children. The children and juveniles accommodated in Würzburg Clearing Agency were aware of the prison rules and possible sanction measures, but they did not have access to them in written form. The Joint Commission would like to refer here to the good example of a list of rights at Gauting girls’ home, which is 78