violence. Greek law requires that these children be referred “to rehabilitation services and to receive appropriate psychological care and specialised treatment”.66 Case study: Mari* and her minor daughter are a single-parent family of refugees from Afghanistan. The child suffered serious forms of sexual abuse inside the camp in which they resided. Following the incident, criminal proceedings were launched and the child was transferred by the RIS to CTRC Malakasa together with her mother in early March 2023. Since then, however, the family was not transferred to a shelter for victims of gender-based violence. They remained in CTRC Malakasa where the child was not provided with the necessary care and support, nor was she referred to a child psychologist or to other rehabilitation services. In October 2023, after they received refugee status and travel documents, Mari and her daughter were forced to depart from the camp and became homeless until their departure from Greece. In a document issued in February 2024 on the family’s complaint, the RIS stated that “for the second complainant we deem that [the complainants] should have requested support or referral of the minor to a child psychologist”. In other cases, requests by vulnerable residents of mainland camps for special reception conditions have not been met with any reply from the authorities: Case study: Najla* and her minor daughter are a single-parent family of refugees from Afghanistan. Both are survivors of serious forms of gender-based violence and suffer from mental health conditions. They were placed in CTRC Malakasa after RIC Malakasa had identified them as vulnerable and the child as a victim of violence. In May 2023, Najla requested special reception conditions for her daughter and herself. She specifically asked for a transfer to an appropriate place – apartment – and for adequate health care. Najla explained that the distance of CTRC Malakasa from Athens makes the family’s access to medical services extremely difficult, on the one hand, and that the camp has no specialised medical personnel such as a psychiatrist or a child psychiatrist to support them and does not have effective processes for referrals to the public health system. Najla’s request never received a reply from RIC Malakasa. The family was notified a refugee status decision at the end of August 2023. Integration support State support for the integration of people receiving international protection into Greek society is inextricably linked to the camp system. The HELIOS integration programme implemented by IOM 66 Article 63(2) Greek Asylum Code. RSA REPORT │ REFUGEE CAMPS IN MAINLAND GREECE | JUN 2024 23