MONITORING ACTIVITIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS OTHER ACTIVITIES – S  ix meetings with foreign ombudsmen etc. and two meetings with representatives from the other Nordic ombudsmen offices with discussion and exchange of experi­ ence. – Five meetings with national monitoring authorities with discussion and exchange of experiences. – Together with DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the Ombudsman held a meeting with representatives of the civil society. 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 joint dialogue. – As part of the Danish children’s ombudsman collaboration, the Ombudsman gene­ rally 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 about asylum children was held with relevant interested parties. – Developing a catalogue of recommendations for monitoring visits to institutions for adults as an operational tool for visiting teams (improvement of our own practice). OTHER RESULTS – T  he National Board of Social Services published the handbook ‘Vold og seksuelle overgreb mod børn med handicap – Håndbog om forebyggelse, opsporing og håndter­ ing’ (‘Violence and sexual abuse against children with disabilities – A handbook on prevention, detection and handling of such abuse’), only available in Danish. The background for this publication was, among other things, the Ombudsman’s general recommendation in his thematic report for 2015 to draw up guidelines on how insti­ tutions for children with disabilities may prevent sexual abuse and which procedures the institutions should follow in cases of suspected abuse. 65