In addition, a final report on six years of monitoring Youthcare Plus has been composed. The
overall conclusion of this final report on six years of Youthcare Plus is that the Inspectorate
for Youth Care, the Health Care Inspectorate and the Inspectorate of Education find that the
Youthcare Plus institutions and schools are able to provide adequate care and education to
youths requiring a more drastic form of specialized youth care in the future. The youths receive
individual treatment and the institutions employ customized solutions when deploying
freedom-restricting measures, granting leave and offering elements of the daytime program.
The families are involved in the treatment. In most cases, the youths go to school within two
working days after their arrival at the institution and only a negligible amount of lessons is
cancelled. As part of their personal action plan, the youths are prepared for a next step towards
as independent a life as possible, outside of the closed environment.
However, the Inspectorates did identify a number of obstacles and points for improvement
that the institutions need to address. The Inspectorate for Youth Care will continue to follow
the progress as part of its supervision of the institutions and by way of consultations with the
sector association. The final report was submitted to the House of Representatives by the State
Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport and the State Secretary for Education, Culture and
Science. In their policy response to the House, they inform the House that they have followed
the report’s recommendations. The response also describes how the points for improvement
will be addressed and what is expected of the field parties. One concrete example is the set
of measures implemented to promote and monitor the progression of the youths from the
Youthcare Plus institutions to the environment and form of education deemed most suitable.
Furthermore, in 2014, the Inspectorate for Youth Care, together with the Health Care
Inspectorate and the Inspectorate of Education examined six cases of (supposedly) physically
inappropriate behaviour or disproportionate use of restraints by a group leader with physical
damage to the juvenile. For all these cases, the centres themselves announced that they would
implement measures to prevent repeat incidents, including more specific agreements on
the provision of de-escalation and physical resilience training. The Inspectorate requested
that additional improvement measures be implemented in two cases. These points for
improvement, too, will be followed by the Inspectorate during its regular supervisory activities.
Also, the Inspectorate for Youth Care and the Health Care Inspectorate conducted research for
the death of a juvenile in an institution for Youthcare Plus. This report has been published.
2.4 Detention and repatriation of irregular migrants
In 2014 the Inspectorate VenJ, in cooperation with the IGZ, in the framework of the Second
immigration chain monitor conducted an investigation into the compliance with the
improvement measures arising from the incident-based investigation into the death of
Alexander Dolmatov. These measures relate to, among other things, acting carefully during
the stay of a foreigner in police custody and the medical care in detention centres. The second
report on the monitoring of the immigration shows that the Inspectorates see results have
been achieved and many professionals have a great will to continue to improve. The fact
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