seen anywhere during the inspection. All rooms had their windows wide open as this was the only way to ventilate the rooms. The children’s rooms still had no heating at all although the inspection was conducted in the winter heating season. The children wore warm overcoats at all times. There is only one common sanitary facility on the floor. It has two squat toilets and one sink. There were video surveillance cameras installed only in the corridors, but there were no outdoor security arrangements. Sections of the yard fence were missing. The school’s Internal Rules and Regulations were not posted in a conspicuous place. The physical environment and property were generally in a poor state of repair. Only the doors and window frames had been replaced. 3.2. Education and Training The CBS in the village of Kereka provides educational service to its inmates from grade 5 through grade 8. The school formed composite classes with pupils from grades 5 and 6. The inspection team attended a woodworking practice session. The team was left with the impression that despite the considerable efforts made by the teacher, the children were not particularly interested or involved in what they were being taught. This was corroborated in interviews with the children. They shared with the team that they were not at all interested but attended the class because they had no choice. The time of the inspection coincided with class time and the children were in the classrooms. It was notable that, whilst the children had been provided with learning aids and exercise notebooks, those had not been used. The classroom equipment was outdated and worn out, and did not meet the requirements of modern-day education. The woodworking practice shop is at a distance from the main building and has no heat. Moreover, it was quite dirty and dusty. The team did not receive convincing explanations as to how health and safety was monitored and maintained in woodworking practice sessions, given that there were no woodworking tools and supplies stored in the shop besides the woodworking machines and some lumber. This called into question the assertions made by the principal that the woodworking shop was regularly used. And even if it was routinely used, the issue of ensuring the safe use of woodworking machinery still remains open. The conclusion drawn by the NPM was that education-related classroom activities were hardly a priority, either for the children or for their teachers. None of the children interviewed expressed any attitude towards the education process. The children raised also the problem relating to the use of the computer room. They shared that their computers were old and had no access to the internet. 3.3. Medical Care The boarding school has no health room. All inmate students were registered with a GP practice and were also on a dentist’s patient list. In the current academic year, one of the boys had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. On the initiative of the principal, the student had been released from the boarding school in a timely fashion on medical grounds. Also in the current academic year all students had been given a tuberculin test and three boys had tested positive. One student had been diagnosed with bronchial asthma and another one had a varicocele. There were students with mental illness, the principal diagnosis being mild mental retardation. Their schooling was supported by a special education resource teacher. 57