Czech "care" homes

I'm watching the news and I feel completely sickened, also furious. The BBC had just showed a report secretly filmed in the Czech Republic showing disabled children kept in "cage beds" - beds with high bars around them - in care homes. This practice was outlawed there a year ago (yes, one year) - and only because the EU complained - but is still, according to the BBC, prevalent. The relevant minister has grudgingly agreed to look into the BBC's report and mumbled something to the effect that Rome wasn't built in a day. You can read a report on the BBC's website, here. It is incredibly depressing. There's a Q&A about cage beds here.

I would like to know why a country which flouts the European Convention on Human Rights in this vile and disgraceful way is a member of the European Union. Ditto Bulgaria, with its grotesque "orphanages".

EDITED TO ADD: I don't understand why this whole subject has completely passed me by (finger on the pulse, obviously), given that it was given huge publicity by JK Rowling, who was so appalled by a 2004 Times article on the use of cage beds that she became one of the founding directors of a charity called the Children's High Level Group, which campaigns for children's human rights. Lots of this, plus details on how to join the campaign, on JK Rowling's own website, which is here.