CRC/C/KHM/CO/2-3 responsibilities, in light of article 18 of the Convention. The Committee also recommends that the State party build up a child-protection system to follow up on families that need supportive measures in order to give proper care and attention to their children. Children deprived of a family environment 45. While welcoming the adoption of the 2006 Policy on Alternative Care for Children and the 2008 Minimum Standards on Alternative Care for Children, the Committee notes with concern that the Prakas (regulations) to implement this policy have yet to be adopted. The Committee also expresses serious concern that there has been a 65 per cent increase in the number of children in orphanages in the State party between 2005 and 2008, and that residential care continues to be considered the best option. The Committee is also concerned that: (a) One third of institutionalized children still have one of their parents; (b) Residential care facilities remain inappropriately registered and monitored; (c) Insufficient budgetary allocations and the lack of well trained child-care workers hinder the effective implementation of the State party’s policies and guidelines. 46. The Committee calls on the State party to promptly adopt the Prakas related to the Policy on Alternative Care for Children and to allocate the necessary human, technical and financial resources for the full implementation of this policy and the Minimum Standards on Alternative Care for Children. The Committee also urges the State party to: (a) Undertake effective measures to promote, through counselling and community-based programmes, the family as the best environment for the child and empower parents to take care of their children in order to avoid placement in child welfare centres; (b) Develop comprehensive admission criteria and strategies to reduce the number of children living in care institutions, including through policies to strengthen and support families, and ensure that placement of children in institutions is only used as a last resort; (c) Implement mechanisms to reintegrate institutionalized children into their families; (d) Recruit additional child-care workers and ensure that they are adequately trained and remunerated to monitor family-type alternative care measures; and (e) Take into account the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (General Assembly resolution 64/142, annex). Adoption 47. The Committee welcomes the 2009 Law on Inter-Country Adoption and the establishment of an Inter-Country Child Adoption Authority. The Committee is however concerned that the regulations for implementing the laws have not yet been adopted and that illegal international adoptions still reportedly take place with the involvement of staff from State-run institutions, and no proper investigation is conducted into these allegations. 48. The Committee also urges the State party to adopt without delay the Prakas to implement the Law on Inter-Country Adoption. The Committee also urges the State party to ensure strict transparency and follow-up controls with regard to 10