CONSOLIDATED REPORT This section seeks to determine the situation of children in closed institutions under the mandate of the National Preventive Mechanism, in order to determine the necessary measures to improve the situation in the area of the ​​ implementation of the rights of children and protection of their interests in closed institutions. NPM members on Prevention of Torture during the monitoring of the data from the institutions of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan studied the situation with respect to the rights of children in these institutions from the point of view of maintaining human dignity, the constitutional principle of its integrity, consequences or conditions of cruel or degrading treatment, punishment or torture. This section was prepared on the basis of written reports on the visit in the form approved by the NPM Coordination Council under the Commissioner for human rights. The report is signed by all members of the team who 145 have carried out a preventive visit. NPM members use various methods of collecting information about the conditions of stay and the attitude of the staff towards minors in the institution, primarily paying attention to the respect for human dignity. Conversations are conducted with persons contained in institutions and organizations subject to preventive visits, and (or) their legal representatives without witnesses, as well as with the staff; observance of the behavior of minors is done; case study documentation (case study) is reviewed, messages and complaints about the use of degrading treatment and punishment are received; responses of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the implementation of the developed recommendations of NPM members on the creation of favorable conditions for the stay of minors in closed institutions and the friendly attitude towards them are being studied.