SECTION 2. The results of NMP operation in Ukraine 107 2.7. MONITORING OF INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE, YOUTH AND SPORTS: RESULTS As of October 1, 2012 the 710 institutions of this agency provided for 142,976 resident children. The institutions of the system of education that are subject to monitoring by NPM personnel include:: – 359 boarding schools of general education, incl. for orphans and children with no parental care (42,849 children); – 195 special boarding schools of general education for orphans and children with no parental care (80,465 children) – 66 health care boarding schools of general education (15,029 children); – 9 social rehabilitation schools of general education and vocational training (301 children), and – 104 children’s homes for orphans and children with no parental care (4,332 children). The general tendency of the last five years is a gradual decrease in the number of children referred to state-run boarding schools of general education (from 12.7 thousand in 2008 to 9 thousand in 2012) and to children’s homes (from 5.5 thousand in 2008 to 3.3 thousand in 2013), as a result of application of alternative educational modes. This, consequently, leads to a reduction in the number of such institutions (88 and 115 in 2008 and, accordingly, 72 and 104 in 2012). Monitoring visits of 2012 embraced 11 institutions of the Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sports: – Kobelyaky special boarding school of general education, Poltava Region); – Lyublynets boarding educational center, Volyn Region; – Prybuzska special boarding school of general education, Vinnytsya Region; – special boarding school of general education No. 7 for lexically impaired children, Holosiyivsky District of Kyiv; – special boarding school of general education No. 16, Svyatoshynsky District of Kyiv; – special boarding school of general education No. 2, Solomyansky District of Kyiv; – health care boarding school of general education No. 21, Obolonsky District of Kyiv;