2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE often applied as a disciplinary mea­sure. In some cases, when left in charge of younger children, older children themselves would discipline them for the inappropriate behaviour. 5. Concerning the events of a negative nature. The perception of cases that are considered events of a negative nature differs. No regist­ration log of such events is kept, or not all negative events are entered in such a log. 6. Concerning the living conditions. No proper conditions for doing homework were provided. Children were living in a room of a very poor condition and without a door. Children complained about the lack of privacy when a roommate (mostly an older person) would bring a boyfriend or a girlfriend to the same room or play music at full volume. 7. Concerning the ensuring of personal hygiene items. The purchase of such articles does not meet the children’s individual needs or ensure the possibility to express their opinions. The supplies (cups, towel holders, etc.) in the hygiene rooms are marked with numbers (rather than child’s name or a symbol agreed with a child in care). Not all the children had oral hygiene items appropriate for their age. 8. Concerning the procedure for payment of pocket money. The legal framework breaches the principle of equality where children of similar age get different sums of pocket money at different institutions. Fourteen-year-olds receive not the full sum due to them, i.e. the payable amount of 15.20 euros is rounded down to 15 euros. The procedure for payment of pocket money is not clear, and there is no indication about how and for what actions the sum of pocket money can be increased, reduced or not paid at all, which creates preconditions for an institution to abuse its rights when allocating and paying pocket money. 9. Concerning the introduction of children to their rights and duties, availability of information and examination of inquiries. The availability of information is only ensured in part, and the anonymity of inquiries is not guaranteed. 10. Concerning the prevention of smoking and alcohol consumption. The efforts to solve the issues of preventing the consumption psychoactive substances, identifying the fact of their consumption and providing assistance to children are inadequate. Regarding the above shortcomings, a total of 25 recommendations were made to the responsible authorities (of which one was concerned with the improvement of the legal framework). No information has been received yet on the implementation of those recommendations. The 2015 Report of the Seimas Ombudsmen described the shortcomings found during the inspections at 4 (four) children’s care institutions of Vilnius County, in particular Antakalnis Child­r en’s Social Care Home, Children’s Social Care Home Gilė, public establishment Social Centre for Children and Adolescents, and Mintis Children’s Social Care Home (Report No. 2015/1-137 of 29 February 2016): concerning the composition, number, working hours and salaries of the personnel, personnel qualification development, volunteer activities, general safety climate at the institutions, improper treatment of children by employees, disciplinary measures applied and control of children’s behaviour, procedure for payment of pocket money and other issues. With respect to these shortcomings, a total of 24 recommendations were issued to the institutions (of which two ones were concerned with the improvement of the legal framework). However, no information was obtained about 15