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MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE:
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Bedrooms for primary school pupils’
after-lunch sleep are used above
capacity (each has 8 beds). If the
number of residents increases at the
expense of children from rural areas
or small towns and the number of
bedrooms remains the same the
school will not be able to provide
permanent residence to such children,
as at present the administration has no
plans to equip more bedrooms and the
school gradually turns into a daycare
facility;
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Some children stay at institutions
despite contraindications (epilepsy,
enuresis) specified in the Annex to
the Regulation on boarding schools
of general education and health
care schools of general education,
approved by Order of MES of June 12,
2003, No. 363.
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Use of a rating system of evaluation,
when the degree of civility (from 0 to
3) predetermined resident children’s
“benefits” that, strangely, included
hobbies and even visits by parents, in
contravention of p. 3 of Article 9 of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Moreover, some children even after
2.5 years of residence at the center
were still evaluated with the zero
degree of civility, which casts doubts
on the effectiveness of the applied
system of rewards and punishments
and appropriateness of such children’s
residence at Fontanka school.
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Breaks schedule does not meet
requirements of p. 4.7 of the Regulation
on boarding schools of general
education and health care schools of
general education, approved by Order
of MES of June 12, 2003, No. 363 (the
duration of breaks must be at least 15
minutes, duration of the long break - at
least 30 minutes, while at the
institution the break between the 1st
and 2d lessons is 10 minutes and the
long break lasts 20 minutes).
Kyiv health care boarding school of general
education No. 22
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Lack of equipment for exercise therapy.
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NPM staff uncovered that in a
number of instances orphans and
children deprived of parental care
personally wrote, for several years
in a row, their own applications with
“requests” to extend their education
at the psychological and pedagogical
correction center for children with
deviant behaviors at Fontanka health
care boarding school.
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Absence or insufficiency of furniture
in the bedrooms (bedside cabinets,
chairs, lockers for personal belongings,
etc.) according to their needs. For this
reason in some institutions residents
undress and keep their things in a
separate room, which is not always
properly convenient.
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