Social Care Centres fered for the residents. The training of new social skills and of assertiveness in drink refusal is also planned. The stay in the unit will not be a substitute for treatment, but will allow to look at drinking alcohol from a different perspective, to expand knowledge about reasons and consequences of drinking; it may also motivate to make some changes in the life of the given resident of the centre, provide an opportunity to acquire numerous individual and social skills, as well as to encourage and better prepare the resident to take part in a therapy in an addiction treatment centre. In order to conduct a therapy, the unit will have its separate organisational regulations including the prohibition of drinking alcohol in the unit. The unit will be available for all social care centres in the Wielkopolska region, and also from other regions, which will be able to place their residents with a drinking problem in the unit on a rotation basis188. 7.4 Areas requiring improvement 1.  Legality of stay In three visited centres189 intended only for chronically mentally ill persons, there were also mentally disabled persons, although there was no separate type of the centre there. Pursuant to Article 56a(2) of the Act on social assistance, certain 188 In 2012, the Act of 12 March 2004 on social assisstance (Dz. U. of 2013, item 182) did not provide for the possibility to create a special type of centre for alcoholics. Therefore, such persons were referred to other types of centres where they often violated the principels of social interaction due to their addition. In order to combat drinking alcohol by the residents in a way disturbing the functioning of the centres and to offer help in fighting the addition, some of the visited centres implemented a number of valuable initatives, i.e. organised meetings with therapists, offered courses for alcoholics who wanted to combat their addiction or created support groups. However, the said objectives also provided the grounds for infringement of the rights of persons battling alcohol addiction and for their inappropriate treatment (see: contact with the outside world, treatment and discipline). In some centres where this problem occurred there were no measures introduced for alcoholics, persons abusing the alcohol or with risky drinking habits, apart from the maintenance therapy in the form of talks. The legislator noticed the problem and on 22 February 2013 the draft Act amending the Act on social assistance and certain other acts (print No 1026) was passed which provides for the establishment of social care centres for persons addicted to alcohol. The said Act was published on 26 April 2013 in the Journal of Laws of 2013, item 509, and will enter into force 14 days after its publication (Article 5 of the Act).Pursuant to Article 59(7) of the Act, the decision on referral and placement in a social care centre referred to in Article 56(7) (for persons addicted to alcohol) shall be made for a specified period of time, not exceeding 12 months, with a possible extention to 18 months in justified cases. 189 Social Care Centre in Choroszcz, Social Care Centre in Racibórz, Social Care Centre in Ruda Śląska. 83