A/HRC/43/15/Add.1 122.79–81 Slovenia will continue to carry out the activities in the field of trafficking in human beings and fight against it in accordance with the 2019-2020 Action Plan for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings. 122.86 Slovenia considers this recommendation implemented. In May 2016, the Government approved the Handbook for identifying, protecting and assisting victims of trafficking providing for the right to assistance and support for victims as soon as it can reasonably be assumed that they might have been victims of human trafficking. 122.91–92 In Slovenia, access to health services is universal. Emergency healthcare is universally accessible. The public primary health care system in Slovenia provides free preventive and curative health care to all children and adolescents up to the age of 19. 122.93 Under the 2010 National Programme, Slovenia supports new developments in palliative care in all areas of healthcare, and strives for enhanced medical care at primary level (in the home environment). 122.94 Slovenia is implementing measures, which are closing the gap between the regions by allocating a greater share of funding for education projects to lesser developed regions. 122.95–96 The Organisation and Financing of Education Act provides for the right to the optimal development of the individual, irrespective of gender, social background or cultural identity, religion, racial, ethnic or national origin, and regardless of their physical and mental constitution or invalidity, and to develop and achieve the highest possible level of creativity. The Constitution stipulates that elementary education is compulsory. 122.97 Slovenia considers these recommendations implemented. According to the Elementary School Act, children who are foreign citizens or stateless persons and reside in Slovenia have the right to compulsory elementary school education under the same conditions as citizens of Slovenia; persons granted international protection enjoy the right to pre-school, primary, secondary, higher and university education and adult education to the same degree as citizens of the Republic of Slovenia. Applicants for international protection have access to higher, university and adult education under the same conditions as citizens of the Republic of Slovenia. 122.98 Slovenia considers that the activities for the implementation of this recommendation are already ongoing. These topics are included in the training programmes designed for border police officers and Police College students. The protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in police procedures is also a compulsory subject in the regular training of police officers. 122.99 Slovenia will strive for continued progress in the implementation of strategies aimed at achieving gender equality in all spheres of economic, political and social life, including in employment and granting equal pay. 4