detention of police forces (National Republican Guard and the Public Security Police) and one in an Educational Centre for Young People. A brief description of each visit is made on the following pages, identifying the purpose, the date on which it took place and the location. Visit no. 1-2014 Date: 2014.08.27 Location: “Centro da Bela Vista” Educational Center For Young People, Lisbon Subject: Investigation of appropriate conditions to the implementation of the concept of “gender peculiarity” On August 27th a visit was conducted to the “Centro da Bela Vista”, an Educational Center for Young People located in Lisbon. Both the physical space and the organizational model were measured, as well as the inter-relational everyday life of young people, developed in a context as familiar as possible. With three residential units (each with individual rooms, sanitary facilities, cafeteria, school conferences and a technical room for the tutor), the Center was thought only for the internment of children and young people of the male gender. However, a total of 13 girls were placed in the Center in July 30, 2014, as a result of the closure of the Educational Center for Young People of Santa Clara in Vila do Conde. For this reason, the Center suffered an internal reorganization: the male population was relocated in two residential areas while the newly arrived young girls were placed in the surplus unit. At the date of the visit, the effective occupation was of 47 elements (35 boys and 12 girls, two of which were pregnant). The opening of the female residential unit did not entail differentiating elements on the grounds of “gender distinctiveness”. A personal educational project was designed for all young people in intern regime, except two cases (a boy and a girl), which hold assigned injunctive guard. The team members talked with one of the pregnant girls, which was undergoing an internment measure of one year; no problems were identified, particularly in terms of medical follow-up. In short, the expectation that the relocation of the female population is merely transitory (not exceeding nine months) was consolidated, involving the transfer of those elements to the Educational Center for Young People of Navarro de Paiva, also located in Lisbon, and already prepared for a joint intervention model. • 14 |