10. Minors 74 10.5 After Release. Upon release from detention, unaccompanied minors are transferred to special reception centres. They are handed a deportation order valid for 30 days (the same as for adults), naming the reception centre they are referred to. Since summer 2010, the NGO Metadrasi is organising these transfers to the reception centres the Ministry of Health has identified. _he seven existing specialised reception centres do not fulfil the minimum standards, since they cannot provide the kids with appropriate health care, education or legal aid owing to the lack of sufficient funding or funding delays. In addition, the guardianship scheme does not function after release either, implying that the minors continue to be unrepresented and unprotected. Minors waiting for their registration When it comes to minors at the age of 17 - 17 1/2 the authorities seem to delay their transfer to an adequate accommodation centre on purpose. Many children become adults while in detention, exposing them to deportation or readmission. In two cases unaccompanied minors were registered as adults. Only after lawyers’ intervention the correction of their date of birth occurred, but both (one from Venna and the other from Soufli) they’ve been detained for more than five months and were released upon intervention to the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity, the First Instance Public Prosecutor and an application lodged before the court to challenge detention, in one of the cases. One was already 18 years old when released. Adult Iraqis in detention risk deportation. Right after their arrival in the reception centres, most of the minors continue immediately, or after one or two days of rest, towards Athens. Their only aim is to reach Athens in order to organise how to leave Greece. Some of the minors have already contacts in Athens, others do not. If they have no relatives or friends to host them, most of the time they will stay together with adults in informal hotels, or in the street, exposed to exploitation, violence and deprived of their basic rights as children. Minors that have not been registered as such will be released just like adults, without any further support. Minors who were wrongly registered as adults remain unprotected also upon release