fundamental and human rights �.� national preventive mechanism against torture recommendations may also be given to the supervised entity during the visit. At the same time, it has been possible to engage in amiable discussions of how the facility might, for example, correct the inappropriate practices observed. 3.5.3 INFORMATION ACTIVITIES A brochure on the NPM activities has been published and is currently available in Finnish, Swedish, English, Estonian and Russian. It will also be translated into other languages, if necessary. The reports on the inspection visits conducted by the NPM have been published on the Ombudsman’s external website since the beginning of 2018. The NPM has enhanced its communications on visits and related matters in the social media. 3.5.4 EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON FUNDAMENTAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS In order to promote human rights education and training, The Ombudsman and the Human Rights Centre started a joint project in 2017. The project is particularly targeted at the educational sector. The goal of the project and the inspection visits is to assess and promote education and training on basic and human rights at all levels of school life. Based on the experiences gained during the visits, the project team produced a training package for municipal directors of education and headmasters. In 2018, the NPM initiated a joint project with the Human Rights Centre on the realisation of fundamental and human rights in housing services for the disabled. In preparation for the project, experts employed by the Human Rights Centre have participated in visits of service units for disabled people. 74 3.5.5 TRAINING The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman provided training related to the duties of the NPM as follows: – National patient ombudsman days / NPM inspection visits of health care units. Cooperation with patient ombudsmen during visits – Training on the right to self-determination for special care districts / The Ombudsman’s task as a national preventive mechanism – Forty years of research into intellectual disabilities conference / The Ombudsman’s inspection visits of institutions and housing services for the intellectually disabled – The seminar organised by the Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities / Human rights and housing – the perspective of the overseer of legality – Costs and impact of foster care in child welfare services training day / What are the obligations and restrictions imposed by the law? – Police criminal investigation seminar / Presentation of the Ombudsman’s recent decisions concerning the police The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman participated in training related to the duties of the NPM as follows: – “Abuse and neglect. What has happened to the nurse’s ethic?” / Finnish Nursing Congress and Exhibition – The prisoner’s social rights seminar, with topics such as “How are the fundamental rights of prisoners being realised? What is the significance of sentence planning for the implementation of imprisonment?” / The Training Institute for Prison and Probation Services – Foreigners as perpetrators / The Training Institute for Prison and Probation Services The seminar was opened by Deputy-Ombudsman Pölönen – Substance addiction as a disease and its treatment – is the Finnish model working? / Parliamentary Committee for the promotion of health and well-being

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