G.T.B. v. SPAIN JUDGMENT programme, in order to receive remedial teaching to compensate for his lack of previous academic education. A report from that year stated as follows: “Taking into account his numerous absences and the little interest shown, no progress has been observed in his attitude towards school, either in his behaviour or as regards the curricular content”. 13. The applicant started manifesting psychological disorders in 1996, at the age of eleven. 14. In the 1997/98 academic year the applicant was transferred back to school B, where he was enrolled in the sixth grade of primary school. His individualised assessment report of November 1997 contained the following observation: “... continuous absences from class make it impossible to follow a rhythm of work with the student. [He shows] little interest in his work, which may be due to the [developmental] delay he suffers from. He receives remedial teaching three hours a week, with better performance than in the classroom.” The applicant did not finish his studies that year. The school issued a report according to which the applicant and his sister did not have identity documents, had missed classes frequently without justification, and had often arrived at school poorly dressed, without any attention having been paid to their personal hygiene, and without having had breakfast; in addition, Ms X had caused problematic situations with the teachers both at schools B and C, as well as with representatives of the social security authorities and of a non-governmental organisation. 15. In the 1998/99 academic year, the applicant was enrolled in the first grade of secondary education. He did not attend classes during the entire year, but he was enrolled in the second grade for the 1999/2000 academic year. 16. In 1998, at the age of 13, according to the applicant, he began indiscriminate consumption of toxic substances. In 1999, at the age of 14, he participated in robberies and started using cocaine. II. THE APPLICANT’S JUVENILE RECORD 17. From December 2001 (when the applicant was 16 years old), several correctional measures were imposed on him by the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Juvenile Court (“the Juvenile Court”). 18. On 22 January 2002 the measure of attending a day centre for one year was imposed on the applicant. According to the documents submitted by the applicant, the workers of the day centre offered to help Ms X in the proceedings aimed at registering the applicant’s birth and at obtaining an ID card for him, but she refused. By a judgment of 5 July 2002, following a plea bargain with his lawyer, the applicant was sentenced to detention in a semi - open regime for ten months. In November 2002 he escaped from the detention centre and was sentenced to six months in a semi-open regime in a judgment of 10 June 2003. On 31 May 2003, while he was still serving the 3