Visits to places of deprivation of liberty for school work. In their rooms, each child and adolescent has their own desk and a desk lamp, which they rarely use since there is apparently enough daylight. After visiting four institutions where educational programmes for children and adolescents are implemented, the NPM determined that conditions for working and studying vary significantly between institutions. In some of them, children and adolescents have sufficient space to work and daylight. They have desk lamps and modern furniture. The situation is different elsewhere. Furniture is old, even dilapidated. Daylight is insufficient and rooms feel cramped. Managements in all institutions referred to the lack of funds for maintenance or investments. The NPM established that the field of construction and equipment in institutions implementing educational programmes was not regulated. There are no special standards and norms for constructing and equipping these institutions. The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport informed us only of the Norms for the Construction and Equipment of Institutions for Secondary School Students in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia from 1976, which are also still reasonably applied for constructing and equipping institutions implementing educational programmes. According to the NPM, the lack of legal arrangements and the lack of funds for maintenance and investments contribute to significant differences between individual institutions regarding the provision of suitable conditions for studying and working of children and adolescents. Based on the aforementioned and following the findings established during thematic visits to individual institutions implementing educational programmes for children and adolescents, the NPM recommended to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport to draft suitable standards and norms for constructing and equipping institutions performing educational programmes and ensure these institutions (financial) resources in the amount that would allow the realisation of above standards and norms. We are still waiting for a response from the Ministry. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2018 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 47