students’ administrative files. At the time of inspection, this was found again to be the case. It was observed also that most boarding school inmates were allowed to use tobacco products without restrictions. The NPM inspection team noticed also that one of the students had a skin condition. It was immediately recommended that the nurse should refer the boy to a specialist for examination. The students were interviewed about their opinion of the medical services. Some of them shared that the nurse had not been readily available in the health room. Overall, however, all of them had been satisfied with the health and dental care. 1.4. Administration and Management As was evident from the staff establishment plan, the boarding school had a staff of twenty-five members assigned to duties as follows: one principal teacher, six supervisors, five teachers, one psychologist, one accountant and seven auxiliary and support staff. Staff members were assigned to duty on a rotating schedule with a view to ensuring around-the-clock availability of teaching staff and safe continuity of child care and responsibility between shift changes. A major problem faced by the staff relates to the requirement that any child summoned to appear in court should be escorted by a staff member. This is a drain on the school’s technical, human, and financial resources, and hampers the work of the staff. Travel distances in some cases may be considerable. Teachers and supervisors, however, are required to comply with the provisions of the Road Transport Act, banning the transportation of minors during the hours of darkness. A significant problem related to the boarding school’s administrative capacity is the lack of staff members to escort the children and adolescents on their holiday travels. This leads to extremely worrying situations where minors have to travel unaccompanied to and from the boarding school. 1.5. Protection Measures While meeting with the children, the NPM team received a number of complains mostly about students stealing from other students, the lack of hot water, and numerous bullying and harassment complaints. It was established also that almost all of them would leave the school and go to the town of Zavet to work as hirelings in the houses and yards of local residents. They would do odd jobs, mostly firewood splitting, garden digging, or yard cleaning, for a fee of BGN 10 or 15. The NPM recalls that child labour possibilities for boarding school inmates are regulated by Article 33 of the JDA. According to the said provision, children may only work in workshops and subsidiary (subsistence) farms associated with the boarding school. Even though the children are happy to earn their own money, engaging in this type of paid work is not regulated. Furthermore, such work is carried out unsupervised by an adult, such as a school teacher or supervisor, who can assume responsibility for the children’s health and safety. The NPM is of the opinion that such practice needs to be immediately discontinued but believes also that the child labour prohibition and regulation provisions regarding boarding school inmates have to be updated, given that their engagement in paid work is a real social fact even now. The NPM team came across this curious case of the fourteen-year old boy I.A. He claimed that while on a walk to the town of Zavet with other boarding school inmates and a school supervisor, he bought a lottery scratch off ticket and won a kilo of gold or its equivalent of BGN one hundred thousand. He gave the ticket to the boarding school supervisor for safekeeping. 52