During the year, the Parliamentary Ombudsman published three reports
from visits to hospital departments where children and adolescents can
be admitted without their consent.1 The visit reports show that legal safeguards
for children admitted to psychiatric hospital departments should
be strengthened.
(This article was published in the annual report for the Parliamentary Ombudsman as National Preventive Mechanism 2020. The NPM´s 2020 annual report is available here )