92 12. The authorities’ responses to the NPM’s more important measures 212 12.1. Zita Home for Children with Special Needs There were two exchanges of correspondence with the Ministry of Interior in connection with the recommendation to develop a crime prevention and victim support strategy in connection with the sexual exploitation of children and child prostitution. As already explained by the Ministry in connection with the Report on the visit to the Reménysugár (“Ray of Hope”) Children’s Home of Debrecen,213 the National Strategy for Social Crime Prevention and the National Strategy against Trafficking in Human Beings give an adequate response to the issue, so, in the Ministry ’s opinion, there is no need for developing an independent strategy in connection with the sexual exploitation of children and child prostitution. Since, in the meantime, I started a follow-up inquiry214 in connection with an earlier, comprehensive investigation into child prostitution,215 I am going to continue the dialog within the frameworks of my general fundamentalrights-protection activities. The Ministry of Human Capacities (hereinafter the “MoHC”) has established a working group for reviewing and, if necessary, revising the legal regulations related to the restriction of the personal liberty of children living in children’s homes. The working group had its only meeting in 2016 on May 18, 2016.216 The MoHC has promised to amend the relevant material and procedural legal regulations in a way that would compel the Guardianship Authority 212 212 213 214 215 216 Responses by the authorities in cases closed between January 01 and December 31, 2016. Responses by the authorities in cases still in process on December 31, 2016, will be included in that year ’s annual report when those cases are closed. The documents related to the visit to the Reménysugár Children’s Home of Debrecen, conducted on January 29, 2015, are filed under number AJB-1227/2016. See Report AJB-1835/2017. See Report AJB-1227/2011. See the section herein on the Home for Children with Special Needs of the Károlyi István Children’s Center.

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