Health. In the fulfilment of such sensitive tasks, presenting difficulties on a daily basis, these exchanges are also a form of acknowledgement and support of the persons involved. Local partners are also necessary for proper operation of the institutions. The latter need to establish the closest possible relations with the town councils of the communes in which they are established, which are in a position to make all initiatives easier and above all to calm concerns arising from the setting up of an institution which is never desired. Formalised relations with the police and gendarmeries departments also need to be established, in order to provide for rules for dealing with all forms of offences, on the one hand, and children who run away, on the other hand. However, the police, like the gendarmerie, cannot constitute the sole defence against disorder. It is incumbent upon the staff alone to organise the basic requirements of collective life by the necessary educational means. As the Contrôle Général has already made known in its previous reports, the education of children also requires connections with the health administration (insofar as possible, agreements need to be entered into with hospitals specialised in the treatment of mental illness); with the educational administration (with regard to organising the presence of teachers in due time and, if necessary, sending a child accommodated in the institution to school; with the representatives of private businesses and public institutions, for the development of work experience in companies60; and finally with the administration of cultural services, with a view to organising the implementation of projects. As far as the establishment of relations with the public administrations in particular is concerned, approvals and authorisations for opening institutions need to be subject to minimum conditions (for example the presence of a nurse, required for healthcare and health education, one or one and a half days per week)61. Finally, the steering committee provided for by the texts needs to be regularly convened with its members present, in particular the prefect or a representative of the latter and the judicial authorities. Its members should be able to make inspections of the young offenders’ institution for which the committee is responsible. Similarly, juvenile court judges having sent or planning to send adolescents to an institution should be able to have access thereto. 2.3.1.3 – The Children The conditions applicable to children accommodated come under the authority of educational and criminal policy and rulings made by judges. However, a certain number of precautions need to be taken care of. The requirements of education, discipline and rules of collective life always need to be reconciled with the special protection to which children are entitled (cf. Beijing Rules, article 2662) and with their fundamental rights, in particular those concerning the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatments, the right to respect for private and family life and the right to freedom of expression. The managements of the institutions have to ensure that no orders or practices infringe these principles, to which the full attention of audits and inspections needs to be devoted. The manner in which searches are implemented at the time of children’s return from 60 In one CEF concerning which the report was finalised in 2013, vocational experience (of very short duration) was organised, for the greater well-being of the young persons, in the town’s police academy. 61 With regard to mental health issues, see the proposals detailed in section Y below “Fundamental Rights tested by Mental Health”. 62 The so-called Beijing Rules were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. They concern the administration of juvenile justice. 56