47 10. The authorities responses to my recommendations Upon receiving my report on the visit to the GRRC of Debrecen, the Chief of the National Police Headquarters and the Director General of the Office of Immigration and Nationality designated the GRRC of Békéscsaba for implementing the asylum detention of married couples and families with small children. Acting on my recommendation, the Chief of the National Police Headquarters issued an order stipulating that the proportion of female guards in institutions designated for implementing alien policing or asylum detention of women and families with small children should reach 30%. The Director General of the Office of Immigration and Nationality took the necessary measure to ensure that the playing room was open throughout the day, not only during joint activity classes, and that the social workers provided leisure activities appropriate to the detainees. The Therapeutic House accepted my recommendations and worked out detailed initiatives specifying deadlines and the persons responsible. Acting on my recommendation, the institution’s supervisory authority, the General Directorate of Social Affairs and Child Protection conducted extraordinary inspections in all 69 psychiatric institutions under its supervision and shared the summary of its conclusions with me. The Ministry of Human Capacities and the Ministry of Justice made a promise to initiate, taking into account the rights specified in the CRPD, the amendment of the legislation concerning persons placed under guardianship, regulating the use of intrauterine contraceptive devices and sterilization. As a result of the visit to the children’s home, I initiated several legislative amendments. In my report, I emphasized the necessity of the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse – in the meantime, with the adoption of Act XCII of 2015, the Convention was incorporated into the Hungarian legal system. 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. As a result of my report on the Merényi Gusztáv Hospital, in September 2015, the Office of the State Minister for Parliament at the Ministry of Human Capacities indicated that from the Force Majeure Fund of the Ministry HUF 40 million had been allocated to infrastructural investments, and the disbursement of the amount had begun. In my reply, I voiced my concern to the MoHC and the National Healthcare Service Center as supervisory authorities in connection with the renovation. I drew the attention of the parties concerned to the fact that, in the course of the renovation of the Closed Psychiatric Ward, special care must be taken over ensuring adequate per capita living space and the number of staff members provided for by the legislation. The MoHC promised to take the necessary measures in order to separate juvenile psychiatric patient from the adult patients. The head of the Merényi Gusztáv Hospital accepted the majority of my recommendations; however, I find it unacceptable that he set a “continuous” deadline instead of a fixed one for implementing my recommendation regarding the increase in the number of staff members. Acting on my recommendation, the Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service ordered the on-site inspection of the Juvenile Penitentiary Institution. He also ordered the revision of the Institution’s personnel chart in order to provide more psychologist and physician positions. The Institution was granted and additional psychologist position. Furthermore, he ordered to draft a plan for the possible fitting up and expansion of the lockup unit. He instructed the Warden of

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