134 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: according to its letter of December 18, 2012, No. 1/10-3969, had 6 schools of social rehabilitation (203 children) and 3 schools of social rehabilitation and vocational training (98 children). The Ministry by its Order of August 12, 2013 (No. 1149) liquidated Yakushyntsi vocational school, and the 26 children who resided there at the time of liquidation of the institution were transferred to Makiyivka vocational training and social rehabilitation school named after A.S. Makarenko. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by its Resolution “Some aspects of operation of social rehabilitation schools” of November 21, 2013, No. 847, liquidated such schools in Yenakiyeve, Mykolayiv, Kharkiv and Fontanka. the study building; • Bila Tserkva special boarding school of general education at the expense of the regional budget installed 23 plastic windows in the sleeping rooms and renovated two bedrooms for girls, while charity donations also enabled renovations in the gym and the hallway of the third floor of the school building and purchase of new equipment for the games room, new soft furniture, carpet and TV set; • in 2013 at the expense of the regional budget renovation works were carried out on the roofs of the canteen and workshops at Yasynuvata health care boarding school No. 14 and in the toilets of Oleksiyive-Druzhkivka health care boarding school No. 13. The draft budget for 2014 included proposals for funding of finishing works in the laundry room of Yasynuvata school and funding for capital repairs of the roofing, sanitary facilities and assembly hall of Oleksiyive-Druzhkivka health care boarding school; According to the letter from MES of January 16, 2014, No. 92-14, at the beginning of the 2013/ 14 school year the agency’s general education schools of social rehabilitation had 99 resident students, and the schools of vocational training and social rehabilitation – 85 residents. Such restructuring of the system of social rehabilitation schools largely became​​ possible due to the Ombudsman’s Special • Report “Children’s rights in schools of social rehabilitation” of 2013, which was based on the results of a joint survey conducted by experts from Kharkiv Institute for Social • Researchs and Department of NPM. It is noteworthy that in 2013 the Ministry of Education and Science rather efficiently cooperated with the Secretariat of the Ombudsman. According to information provided by the Ministry it took the following actions in response to the Ombudsman’s recommendations: 1) renovation works: • Kyiv special boarding school of general education No. 18 repaired the roof over the passage between the canteen and • Varvarivka special boarding school arranged for a “sanitary orientation room” and installed a toilet in the isolation ward of the medical unit; Horodnya special boarding school of general education developed a project to build a new canteen, with the cost of 2,104,715 UAH; this draft project was positively assessed by the state expertise; Odessa health care boarding school (for children with scoliosis) capitally repaired its canteen, physiotherapy facility and two sanitary rooms, bought new beds and orthopedic mattresses, installed plastic window frames and equipped a part of the school yard;