78 11. Groups of persons deprived of their liberty at the places of detention sidered as best practices. The fact that documents containing data on the state of health and treatment of certain children living in the Home were put on display in a place accessible to both the staff and the residents caused an anomaly related to the right to the protection of personal data. It is unacceptable that the staff tacitly agreed to the children’s smoking at quite a young age and did not take any measures to prevent them from smoking. I highly appreciated the educators’ efforts aimed at avoiding home-schooling as well as the ever-growing role of the district’s public schools in the education of the residents of the Children’s Home. The various free-time and sports programs organized for the children were exemplary. However, it gives cause for concern that a significant rate of children under school-leaving age fails–occasionally or regularly–to participate in compulsory schooling, often staying in the Home under day watch with no justified reason. Skipping school, the way the duty system works, the furnishing of the duty room, and, in particular, the deficiencies of catering to children staying in the duty room caused an impropriety in connection with the children’s rights to education, to care, and to the protection necessary for their proper development. Duty room, Cseppkõ Children’s Home It also gives cause for concern that neither the specialist nor the parents were duly involved in the preparation of the individual education and care plans. One of the children was registered in the individual education and care plan as Roma without the consent of either the parents or the legal representative. Instead of visitation rooms, children often could communicate with their parents only in the entrance hall. That environment is unfit for deepening parent-child relations and, through it, facilitating home care. On the positive side, most of the children felt that they could turn with their problems to the educators or the head of the Children’s Home. The children’s right to complain was hindered by the fact that there were no ways to submit complaints anonymously, and maintaining contact with the guardians and children’s rights representatives was also faltering.

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