37 difficult by either serious disability or the need of the joint placement of siblings. The ten staff members of the children’s home take care of the children under three in turns, which makes the formation of personal attachment impossible. The majority of children attended kindergarten or school outside the institution; their systematic development and engagement were ensured in the children’s home as well. Reménysugár Children’s Home One hundred and twenty-two children lived in foster homes. Recreational activities offered for children living in foster homes were occasional. In some cases older children behaved aggressively vis-à-vis the younger ones; such cases were not always handled properly by the foster homes’ staff. At the time of the visit, 13 children were away without permission; there were grounds for suspecting that one of them was engaged in prostitution. The Children’s Home provides joint placement for mothers of minor age and their children as well. Minor mothers may continue their education with the assistance of educators and, as a result, they may even get vocational qualifications and, later on, successfully enter the labor market. A supportive environment strengthens the attachment between young mothers and their children, which may lay the ground for living together as a family after they leave the system. I made a recommendation to the Minister of Human Capacities requesting him to act more efficiently in order to prevent children from being taken from their families due to financial considerations, and proposed to fully eliminate the practice of placing children under twelve years of age in institutions. In the interest of placing chronically ill or seriously disabled children with foster parents, I proposed the amendment of Act XXXI of 1997 on the Protection of Children and the Administration of Guardianship. 9.1.1.2. Minors serving a sentence involving deprivation of liberty109 States “shall seek to promote the establishment of laws, procedures, authorities and institutions specifically applicable to children alleged as, accused of, or recognized as having infringed the penal law”.110 In accordance with Section 82, Paragraph 1 of the Penal Execution Code, "convicts in juvenile penitentiary who are over eighteen but have not reached yet twenty-one years of age shall also be treated as juveniles". 110 See Article 40, Paragraph 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 109