Principle 26.1 The objective of training and treatment of juveniles placed in institutions is to provide care, protection, education and vocational skills, with a view to assisting them to assume socially constructive and productive roles in society. 9th General Report on the CPT's activities [CPT/Inf (99) 12] § 28 In the view of the CPT, all juveniles deprived of their liberty because they are accused or convicted of criminal offences ought to be held in detention centres specifically designed for persons of this age, offering regimes tailored to their needs and staffed by persons trained in dealing with the young. Moreover, the care of juveniles in custody requires special efforts to reduce the risks of long-term social maladjustment. This calls for a multidisciplinary approach, drawing upon the skills of a range of professionals (including teachers, trainers and psychologists), in order to respond to the individual needs of juveniles within a secure educative and sociotherapeutic environment. Ordinance of the Minister of National Education and Sport on types and detailed rules of operation of public establishments, children and juvenile living conditions in these establishments and the amount and rules of payment made by parents (Dz.U. of 2005, No 52, item 467) § 13 The responsibilities of youth care centre include elimination of reasons and symptoms of soacial maladjustments and preparation of inmates to life in compliance with social and legal norms. § 15 The responsibilities of youth sociotherapy centre include elimination of reasons and symptoms of soacial maladjustments and preparation of inmates to life in compliance with social and legal norms. § 16 The responsibilities stipulated in § 13 and 15are realised through: 1) Organisation on educational, preventive, therapeutic and resocializing activities allowing acquisition of life skills facilitating proper functioning in family and social environment; 2) Help in educational and professional career planning, with regard to the possibilities and interests of inmates; 3) Support for parents (legal guardians) within acquisition of skills which are indispensable to support the development of children and youth, particularly in respect of potential opportunities and elimination of risky behaviour. § 18 Youth care centre and youth sociotherapy centre allow: (..) 1) Participation in individual or group specialistic activities within pedagogical therapy, psycho-educational classes, revalidating, socio-therapeutic, social prevention and resocialization. The inmates in the visited establishments are offered a variety of therapeutic, preventive, learning and resocialising activities. When it comes to therapeutic activities juveniles may participate in e.g. training of abilities to control behaviour related to alcohol and drugs (TUKAN), Agression Control Training, Asertiveness Training, Bibliotherapy, Rational Behaviour Therapy, Minesweeper School (a programme for agressive youth), a programme on counteracting social exclusion among children and youth (We’re together), relaxation, music therapy, imaginative training, autogene training, movement workshops and sociotherapeutic activities. There is usually a psychologist, working full time. There are also didactic classes,

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