TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

Torture and ill-treatment of children in Ukraineof Ukraine, which allows the departmental schools of professional personneltraining to be licensed and conduct educational activities and develop professionalcompetency profile for penitentiary-service positions in accordancewith the Strategy of state personnel policy in 2012–2020, including the licensingof the new training program “Social Assistance” in the first place.Before 2011, the penitentiary employed specialists without targeted trainingin the organs of execution of punishment, guarded detention centers;the main thing is that these employees are predominantly not prepared fordirect contact with delinquents. On the order of the Cabinet of Ministers ofUkraine dated March 17, 2011 No. 201-r the Institute of Penitentiary Servicewas founded. To date, the Institute has 161 full-time cadets and 197 externalcadets. Important are such majors as “Psychology” and the development ofthe new training content for majors “Psychology” and “Law”. The educationaland vocational programs and plans of the Institute are based on considerationof the modern requirements of the penal science and practice, the bestnational and international prison experience. For example, included are suchspecialized disciplines and courses as “Prison Pedagogy”, “Prison Psychology”,“Prison Psychiatry”, “Management in the penal service”, “Socio-educationalwork with convicts”, “Penal system and penal policy of Ukraine”, “Promotinghuman rights in organs and penal institutions”, “Crime prevention in prisons”,“Probation”, “International standards for the treatment of prisoners,” “Comparativepenal law” etc. 17The practical changes and development of vocational training are integratedinto the designed “Strategic Plan for the development of educationaland material base of educational institutions of the State Penitentiary Serviceof Ukraine and improvement of training until 2015.” Under this plan a part ofexisting schools of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine will be reorganizedinto the schools with higher level of accreditation.The important role in the development of the national system of vocationaltraining of personnel of the penitentiary service is played by a numberof international projects to be implemented in 2012–2013. All groundwork isincluded into the syllabus of departmental schools, programs of annual onthe-jobpersonnel training. During the first six months of the past year, togetherwith the CE experts the draft textbook on management in prisons andtextbook on training in prison management were prepared. In June they were9417 Ibid.