CRC/C/MEX/CO/3 page 14 The Committee is also concerned that necessary resources have not been allocated to ensure that preschools will have sufficient human and material resources to be free and accessible to all by 2008. 57. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Increase budget allocation and take effective measures to ensure free quality education at all levels of primary and secondary education in all regions; (b) Strengthen efforts to bridge the gaps in the coverage and quality of education throughout the country, in particular by improving the training of teachers and the teacher-pupil ratio; (c) Strengthen measures to reduce the high dropout rate among indigenous children, inter alia, by providing them with bilingual and bicultural education; (d) Take measures to identify the causes of the high dropout rate in schools, particularly in rural areas and in secondary schools, and to take steps to address the situation; (e) Strengthen educational and vocational programmes, in particular for children who do not attend regular school education, especially migrant children; (f) Ensure that all juvenile offenders have access to adequate educational and vocational programmes; (g) Allocate necessary resources to ensure that quality preschool education will effectively be available to all children in the country by 2008. Sport and leisure 58. The Committee is concerned about the lack of recreational activities, in particular sports facilities and playgrounds, and about the insufficiency of resources and infrastructure to guarantee the right to sport and leisure. The Committee notes with concern the relation between the lack of implementation of this right and the increase of child obesity. 59. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that all children have access to sport and recreational activities by: (a) Increasing the hours and quality of sports programmes in schools; (b) Developing specific sports and leisure programmes for children and adolescents; (c) Increasing allocation of resources for the development of infrastructure and of recreational and cultural activities.

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