CRC/C/15/Add.170 page 15 (h) Continue and strengthen efforts to ensure the easy access of children with disabilities to public areas, buildings and transport, including pavements, schools, hospitals, trains and buses; (i) Strengthen the provision of training in daily living skills for children with cognitive disabilities. Adolescent health 60. The Committee is concerned that: (a) The existing plans for sex education in schools have not been fully implemented; (b) Abortions are widely used as a method of birth control; (c) There are weaknesses in family planning assistance to adolescents, related to the inadequacy of staff and suitable premises and equipment, as indicated by the State party in its report. 61. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure the provision of relevant health information to adolescents, including through the existing plans for sex education in schools, including a safe birth control practices; (b) Strengthen its provision of family planning counselling and assistance with particular regard to reproductive health, and ensure that adolescents have free and confidential access to such assistance. Social security and welfare 62. While noting bill (2646/1998) on the development of the national system of social care which will create a network of services - coordinated by the National Centre for Immediate Social Help - providing social care to individual families and groups in need of immediate attention and help, the Committee remains concerned that: (a) The National Welfare Organization, created in 1998 to coordinate child welfare services, has not yet become fully operational; (b) There is an insufficient number of social workers, lawyers, speech therapists, psychologists and other specialists working within the welfare system and available to support children and their families; (c) There is a lack of children’s welfare services in some areas of the country, such as on the Peleponnese and the Ionian islands;