8. Further activities to prevent ill-treatment »»»»»»» 8. Further activities to prevent ill-treatment Prevention is a multifaceted and interdisciplinary endeavour. We therefore give lectures, engage in debates and educate ourselves. We strive to build a long-term dialogue In 2018, the Public Defender of Rights and employees of the Office again met with the Director General of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic and public prosecutors of the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office. Immediate talks with the management of the Refugee Facilities Administration of the Ministry of the Interior have proven effective in addressing problems found in the residential facility for foreigners. We also met with the new Ministers to summarise our previous work in their respective areas of labour and social affairs, healthcare and justice. After a series of 9 visits to facilities for people with disabilities, we organised a round table discussion with the directors of the visited facilities, where we talked about our findings and practical recommendations. We comment on proposed legislation We commented on the proposed amendments to the decree on medical records and on guidelines regarding the use of means of restraint by healthcare services providers, detention in social services, and placement of children in facilities for children requiring immediate assistance. We are disseminating the standard of prevention of ill-treatment Within regular teaching, our own training activities and participation in conferences, we ―― trained 111 professionals working in long-term and psychiatric care and employees of regional authorities on issues of prevention of ill-treatment of people dependent on care, findings obtained through our visits to facilities, and the need to take prevention of ill-treatment into account within inspection activities; ―― gave lectures for a hundred senior citizens – participants in the Senior Academy of the Brno Municipal Police – as to how they should defend themselves against ill-treatment; 24 Translations of CPT standards We participated in the preparation of Czech translations of additional CPT standards and information overviews. CPT standards