Child and youth welfare facilities the maximum number of twelve children was exceeded on some days, as there was an acute lack of crisis places. There is no additional staff available in the crisis centres despite the overcrowding. Effective care is thus not possible. Measures are insufficient In recent years, the competent authorities for child and youth welfare and protection in Vienna sought to relieve the crisis centres by expanding the follow-up care places and non-residential family support. The figures for 2019 indicate, however, that these expectations have not been fulfilled. The NPM thus recommends continuing the expansion of follow-up care places and increasing the number of crisis places. The NPM also recommended setting up a socio-psychiatric crisis centre so that small children and adolescents with impulse control disorders can be taken care of separately. This recommendation was not taken up by the City of Vienna. Lower Austria is planning to set up such a socio-psychiatric crisis centre. The ongoing child and youth welfare planning update by the University of Koblenz-Landau also indicated that additional places are necessary in crisis care. The regional government of Lower Austria promised to extend the number of places. In Upper Austria, the regular and reserve places in residential crisis care were well occupied but sufficient. Styria, Salzburg and Vorarlberg reported that the available places are sufficient as well. The number of crisis places in Tyrol was continuously extended in recent years and also meets the demand according to information from the Land. The preparatory work for an additional crisis intervention centre is ongoing in Carinthia. Expansion of the child protection centres is planned for 2020. Establishment of a crisis centre necessary in Burgenlan 79 In Burgenland, crisis centres are stipulated for the first time in the regulation. The Land confirmed that increasingly complex problems in the families call for crisis accommodation with a comprehensive, multi-perspectival assessment. However, there are currently no plans to set up a dedicated crisis centre. From January 2020, only six crisis places are to be set up in an existing facility and crisis care staff hired who can take on up to two foster children temporarily. These plans will not be sufficient to cover the needs of older children and adolescents in particular. The urgent need for a crisis centre above all in the adolescent area was also confirmed on a visit by Commission 6 to a facility in Lower Austria. It was reported there that the facility often had to admit adolescents from Burgenland. The NPM thus considers the establishment of a dedicated crisis centre to be urgently necessary and appeals to the Land the take the relevant steps.