126 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: • Bedrooms for primary school pupils’ after-lunch sleep are used above capacity (each has 8 beds). If the number of residents increases at the expense of children from rural areas or small towns and the number of bedrooms remains the same the school will not be able to provide permanent residence to such children, as at present the administration has no plans to equip more bedrooms and the school gradually turns into a daycare facility; • Some children stay at institutions despite contraindications (epilepsy, enuresis) specified in the Annex to the Regulation on boarding schools of general education and health care schools of general education, approved by Order of MES of June 12, 2003, No. 363. • Use of a rating system of evaluation, when the degree of civility (from 0 to 3) predetermined resident children’s “benefits” that, strangely, included hobbies and even visits by parents, in contravention of p. 3 of Article 9 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Moreover, some children even after 2.5 years of residence at the center were still evaluated with the zero degree of civility, which casts doubts on the effectiveness of the applied system of rewards and punishments and appropriateness of such children’s residence at Fontanka school. • Breaks schedule does not meet requirements of p. 4.7 of the Regulation on boarding schools of general education and health care schools of general education, approved by Order of MES of June 12, 2003, No. 363 (the duration of breaks must be at least 15 minutes, duration of the long break - at least 30 minutes, while at the institution the break between the 1st and 2d lessons is 10 minutes and the long break lasts 20 minutes). Kyiv health care boarding school of general education No. 22 • Lack of equipment for exercise therapy. • NPM staff uncovered that in a number of instances orphans and children deprived of parental care personally wrote, for several years in a row, their own applications with “requests” to extend their education at the psychological and pedagogical correction center for children with deviant behaviors at Fontanka health care boarding school. • Absence or insufficiency of furniture in the bedrooms (bedside cabinets, chairs, lockers for personal belongings, etc.) according to their needs. For this reason in some institutions residents undress and keep their things in a separate room, which is not always properly convenient.

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