CRC/C/HND/CO/3 page 10 Prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment 43. The Committee is deeply concerned at the information that beatings during and after apprehension of persons below 18 are common. The Committee is further concerned at the information that some of the child victims of extrajudicial killings appear to have been tortured before being killed. 44. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to prevent children from being subjected to torture or any other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in all circumstances, and in particular during or after their apprehension by law-enforcement officials. The Committee further recommends that all allegations of ill-treatment and abuse committed at the hands of law-enforcement officials be investigated and those responsible prosecuted and punished. 5. Family environment and alternative care (arts. 5; 18, paras. 1-2; 9-11; 19-21; 25; 27, para. 4; and 39 of the Convention) Family care and parental responsibilities 45. While the Committee notes the creation of the Community Child Care Homes in 1998, of 42 comprehensive care centres for children aged under 5, as well as the enactment of the Equal Opportunities Law in 2000 - which obliges companies with more than 30 employees to create day-care centres for children under the age of 7 - it is concerned that integral care services for children while their parents are working are still insufficient. The Committee is also concerned that very few programmes provide specific support for single-mother families, which reportedly constitute around 50 per cent of Honduran families. 46. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Give appropriate assistance to parents in the performance of their child-rearing responsibilities, including appropriate measures to ensure that children of working parents have the right to benefit from childcare services and facilities for which they are eligible; (b) Develop and implement policies and programmes to provide for the needs of children in single-parent families; (c) Take all appropriate measures to expedite the adoption of two Bills aimed at facilitating the determination of paternity and at providing for the responsibility of fathers for the care and upbringing of their children. Alternative care 47. The Committee welcomes the programme supporting foster families and the “families in solidarity” programme, although the latter covers a limited number of children and seems to lack adequate regulations. The Committee is nonetheless concerned at the high number of children in need of alternative care (about 5,000 every year) and at the outdated guidelines for foster care and institutional care, which need to be reviewed.