In the past quarter, the Defender exercised her power under the Public Defender of Rights Act and approached the Government with the findings she obtained in systematic visits of nine facilities providing their clients, aside from accommodation and meals, with services identical in terms of content to social care services, without having obtained the necessary authorisation under Section 78 et seq. of Act No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services, as amended. The Defender found ill-treatment and violations of fundamental rights and freedoms, respectively, of the accommodated persons in all the visited unregistered residential social services facilities. Some of the findings were so alarming that the Defender reported them to the prosecuting bodies.