Youth care centres and youth sociotherapy centres group to adjust it to the requirements of the principle of legality and pedagogic intervention. The employees of the National Preventive Mechanism also examined the issue of strip searches in care centres and sociotherapy centres, emphasising that there were no legal grounds for such searches in the establishments of this kind. According to the NPM representatives, where it is suspected that a juvenile is concealing (is in the possession of) prohibited items, the employees of youth care centres/youth sociotherapy centres should ask the police for help. 2.  Health care The employees of the National Preventive Mechanism praised the organisation of health care in the visited establishments. The centres collaborated with outpatient clinics or other health care centres, thus providing their residents with access to an internist and doctors of different specialities. However, the visiting team noted the lack of preventive screening. This issue was also emphasised in previous reports89. The importance of preventive screening and health education in establishments for juveniles was also emphasised by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in its 9th General Report90. The visiting team also noted that each newly arrived juvenile should undergo medical examination. In the opinion of the NPM representatives such examination is necessary to assess the health of the juvenile and to detect possible diseases. A health certificate issued on the basis of such examination should subsequently be included in the personal records of the juvenile. In establishments where neither a nurse nor a hygienist91 was employed, the NPM employees recommended that the management of those entities should take effort to obtain funds to employ one more member of the full-time medical personnel and, in centres with no patient rooms, they recommended establishing such a room. It should be reminded that the failure to provide preventive health care violates the provisions of the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the European Rules for juvenile offenders subject to sanctions or measures (hereinafter: European Rules for juvenile offenders), i.e. Rule 71: juveniles shall be given preventive health care and health education and Rule 75: Health care in juvenile institutions shall not be limited to treating sick patients, but shall extend to social and preventive medicine and the supervision of nutrition. 90 CPT/Inf (99)12. 91 Youth Sociotherapy Centre in Białystok, Youth Care Centre in Augustów. 89 47