A/HRC/37/50/Add.2 problems and family characteristics are evaluated. With regard to risks and needs, after the form evaluation, group work and individual consultancy service is served to the child and his/her family. 114. In individual consultancy services, home escaping, self-harm behaviours, suicide, victimisation of abuse, crisis management, intervention to crisis and trauma modules are implemented. 115. Group works consist of modules on personal development, healthy life, emotional arrangement, personality improvement and addiction. While personality improvement and healthy life modules are applied to all children, other modules also varies according to individual circumstances such as being drifted into crime, victims of crime, substance addiction, pregnancy, anger management, impulse disorder etc. 116. With regard to Recommendation 5-(g) (“ensure adequate training of all health professionals involved with detainees, ….application of the Istanbul and Minnesota Protocols;”); the Government would like to recall that at the training centres for the personnel of the penal institutions and prisons, information on the importance and scope of the Istanbul Protocol and its implementation principles relevant to the complaints of torture is taught to the personnel responsible for conducting the healthcare services of penitentiary institutions. 117. Also, during the training programs for the administrative and technical personnel of the penitentiary institutions, which are carried out with the support of the Directorate of the Institution of Forensic Medicine, the scope and principles of Istanbul Protocol is elaborated. 118. Moreover, until today, 33,223 personnel have received trainings on “Human Rights” at the training centres for the personnel of the penitentiary institutions. 119. Regarding the Recommendation 5-(i), (“ensure and facilitate regular, effective and independent monitoring of all institutions or locations where individuals may be deprived of their liberty, by national and local bodies…;”) the Government wishes to submit following information: 120. In addition to its own supervisory bodies mentioned above (Article 40), the penitentiary institutions directed by the Directorate-General of Prisons and Detention Houses of the Ministry of Justice are monitored by ; • -The Human Rights Inquiry Commission of Parliament, constituting the members or parliament selected by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey according to the Law No: 3686 of the Commission on Human Rights Inquiry, • -The Monitoring Boards established by the Law No: 4681, • -The Ombudsman Institution established by the Law No: 6328, • -The Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey, established by the Law No: 6701 dated 20 April 2016. 121. Furthermore; • -Since Turkey is a party of the European Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment since 1989 and is a party to Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) since 2011, all institutions or locations where individuals may be deprived of their liberty are also open to international monitoring. 15

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