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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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