CRC/C/FIN/CO/4 (a) Enhance the measures undertaken to combat all forms of bullying and harassment, such as improving the capacity of teachers and all those working at schools and students to accept diversity at school and improve their conflict resolution skills; (b) Pay more attention to children’s well-being in schools, including their right to have their opinions taken into account and conduct a research on the cause of their dissatisfaction at schools; and (c) Take into account the Committee's general comment No. 1 (2001) on the aims of education in the implementation of the above recommendations. Early childhood care and education 56. The Committee is concerned at the shortcomings of early childhood education, such as a lack of professionals, a poor staff-child ratio and reported low quality of day care/preprimary education owing to the lack of minimum standards. While welcoming the provision of morning and afternoon activities for schoolchildren in first- and second-grade elementary school, the Committee is concerned that municipalities are not required to provide such activities, making it difficult for parents to balance work and family life. 57. The Committee recommends that the State party draft a new general act on early childhood care and education, bringing together all the provisions concerning early childhood, and strengthening the child rights perspective taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 7 (2005) on implementing child rights in early childhood and on the basis of the European Commission’s Communication on “Early Childhood Education and Care: Providing all our children with the best start for the world of tomorrow” (COM (2011 66)) of 17 February 2011. The Committee further recommends that the coverage and quality of early childhood education programmes is improved by, inter alia, increasing the number of care staff and improving the staffchild ratio, so that the group sizes are limited and “continuity of care” relationships are better secured. F. Special protection measures (arts. 22, 30, 38, 39, 40, 37 (b)–(d), 32–36 of the Convention) Sexual exploitation 58. The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Act to bring into force the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse in 2011 and the Act on Measures to Restrict the Distribution of Child Pornography in 2007. The Committee, however, regrets the absence of a study into sexual abuse and sexual harassment of children in the digital media (on the Internet). It also regrets that the process of ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography has been slow. 59. The Committee recommends that the State party study the extent of the sexual abuse and sexual harassment in the digital media, especially on the Internet, and strengthen its modalities to detect, and punish perpetrators, and adopt the necessary legal, administrative and policy measures to combat violence in the digital media. It also recommends that the State party allocate adequate resources and enhance Government action and coordination in order to combat sexual exploitation of children, especially on Internet, and ensure that programmes and policies for the prevention, recovery and reintegration of child victims are in accordance with the outcome documents adopted at the 1996 and 2001 World Congresses against 12

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