fundamental and human rights �.� national preventive mechanism against torture the child’s documents is a commendable practice that fulfils and promotes the rights of the child. It should also be recorded whether the meeting was private. The Deputy-Ombudsman recommended the residential school to develop practices for ensuring the children’s opportunity to express their opinions of the foster care arrangements to their social workers every month (1353/2018). The Deputy-Ombudsman decided to ask the municipalities that had placed children in the child welfare unit to report on how the social workers in charge of the children’s affairs were actually able to perform their statutory duties. In addition, the Deputy-Ombudsman requested every social worker who had placed children in their charge in the unit to meet with the placed children and explain the contents and meaning of the visit report to them. The social worker must give the child an opportunity to discuss the matter in private. The afore-mentioned report must also indicate when and how the visit report was discussed with the child (4099/2018*). Employee behaviour Due to the issues reported by the children in their interviews, the residential school was reminded of the appropriate behaviour of employees. The Deputy-Ombudsman noted that employees commissioned by an authority, such as the staff of a private child welfare institution, are also required to behave appropriately and use acceptable language and expressions that demonstrate respect for the child. The educational work of the child welfare institution staff gives the children a model of how adults behave in various situations. For this reason, the persons responsible for the care provided by the institution and those working in the institution must behave in a manner that permits the children placed in the institution to learn appropriate behaviours and good manners (1353/2018). 3.5.14 SOCIAL WELFARE UNITS FOR OLDER PEOPLE The goal is that older people can live at home with the support of the appropriate home-care services. When this is no longer possible, the elderly person moves into an institution or care and residential unit, where they receive care round the clock, including end-of-life care if necessary. There are some 2,200 care units providing full-time care for older people in Finland. Today, no-one is cared for by any unit solely on the basis of old age. Caring for elderly people with multiple conditions consists of health care and nursing in either a social welfare or health care unit. Visits are primarily made to closed units providing full-time care for people with memory disorders, and to psycho-geriatric units, where restrictive measures are used. The aim is to visit care units run by both private and public service providers within a given municipality. This allows for detecting any differences in the standard of care. In 2018, the focus of visits was on units operated directly by the municipalities. Social welfare and health care units, including units providing services for older people, are required to draw up a self-monitoring plan. Such a plan includes the key measures taken by the service provider to monitor their operative units, the Taasiakoti offers intensified assisted living services for the elderly. The home also houses two cats. 102