Social care homes In 2018 the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture visited 5 social care homes69. Systemic problems Regrettably, not all problems of systemic nature have been eliminated. Many of them, despite being reported for many years, remain valid. The NMPT is still awaiting proper legislative steps in that regard70. THE PROBLEM OF SCH STAFF ACTING AS LEGAL GUARDIANS OF INCAPACITATED PERSONS One of the tasks of legal guardians should consist in monitoring whether their wards are provided with due care in a given establishment and reside in conditions that do not violate their dignity. In such a situation it is difficult for social care home employees to remain objective. Furthermore, the performance of the function of legal guardians by social care home personnel only adds to their workload, which may compromise their free time and private life. It may, as a result, lead to lower motivation to properly and conscientiously fulfil the duties they had been entrusted with. THE ISSUE OF CCTV MONITORING The issue of installing CCTV monitoring, e.g. in common areas of the social care homes, has not been in any way regulated in legal provisions. Yet, installing cameras in these types of establishments may constitute intrusion into the privacy of residents, employees and other persons on the premises of the monitored facility. The application of such technological solutions should, thus, be clearly regulated in an act. Lack of legal provisions regulating the application of CCTV Jan Paweł II SCH in Piła (KMP.575.1.2018); SCH in Chełmno run by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul (BPG.575.1.2018); SCH in Ciechanów (ul. Krucza 32) (KMP.575.2.2018); SCH „Kombatant” in Legionowo (KMP.575.3.2018); SCH in Zachcinek near Opatów (KMP.575.4.2018). 70 On 30.01.2018  the Commissioner for Human Rights addressed the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy with respect to the protection of the rights of social care home residents and requested a stance on the existing systemic problems related to the operation of social care homes; KMP.575.7.2016. 69 Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2018 45