| 53 Other activities • Meetings with foreign (including Nordic) ombudsmen or ‘national preventive mechanisms’ etc. with discussion and exchange of experience. • Meeting with a representative from the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, etc. (SPT). • Meetings with national monitoring authorities with discussion and exchange of experience. • Together with DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the Ombudsman held a meeting with civil society representatives. The objective of the meeting was to inform the participants about our monitoring activities and to obtain information about their experiences and gain inspiration through mutual dialogue. • As part of the Danish children’s ombudsman collaboration, the Ombudsman generally collaborates with the Danish National Council for Children and with Children’s Welfare (a Danish organisation offering the Child Helpline, the Children’s Chatroom etc.). As part of the collaboration, a dialogue meeting with focus on the well-being of schoolchildren was held with relevant interested parties. Other results • In January 2018, the Department of Prisons and Probation sent out new guidelines to Prison and Probation Service institutions about staff monitoring of clients who are deemed at a certain risk of endangering their lives. This step was taken in continuation of the Ombudsman’s theme for monitoring visits to institutions for adults in 2014 (prevention of suicides and suicide attempts). • Following a statement from the Ombudsman, the Department of Prisons and Probation has issued a circular letter about investigation and processing of cases where an inmate complains about having been subjected to abuse etc. by Prison and Probation Service staff. (Circular Letter No. 9088 of 22 February 2018). The Ombudsman’s statement concerned an incident where an inmate was pushed several times by a prison guard. (Case No. 2016-52 and news story published on 16 December 2016). • The Ombudsman raised a number of questions about conditions for 15- to 17-year-old inmates in Prison and Probation Service in­ stitutions as part of his theme for monitoring visits to institutions for children in 2017 (young people in secure residential institutions, local prisons and state prisons). (News stories published on 5 September 2017 and 4 July 2018). Subsequently, a number of measures were taken: - The Prison and Probation Service has set up a feature in its management information system enabling regional Prison and Probation Service offices to see how many young people under the age of 18 are or were imprisoned on a specific day or during a specific period of time. - The Department of Prisons and Probation has drawn up professional standards for inmates under the age of 18. The standards are to support consistent compliance with the special rules applicable for inmates under the age of 18. - In 2018, Parliament passed an amendment to the Administration of Justice Act which means that the Minister of Justice lays down special rules on education for remand prisoners of compulsory school age.