CRC/C/ECU/CO/4 • Ensure accountability and end impunity; • Address the gender dimension of violence against children; and • Develop and implement systematic national data collection and research on violence against women, children and adolescents. (b) Use these recommendations as a tool for action, in partnership with civil society and in particular with the involvement of children, to ensure that every girl and boy is protected from all forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence and to gain momentum for practical and, where appropriate, time-bound actions to prevent and respond to such violence and abuse; and (c) Seek technical cooperation in this respect from the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children, OHCHR, UNICEF and other relevant agencies, as well as NGO partners. 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 environment and parental responsibility 48. While welcoming cash transfer programmes for low-income families, such as the Bono de Desarrollo Humano, the Committee is concerned at inadequate preventive measures to strengthen families with children in need of special protection and training on parental responsibilities. It is further concerned that many children need to take on responsibilities for the household and their younger brothers and sisters owing to, inter alia, their parents emigrating from the State party and leaving them behind, as well as at the lack of support for these children. It is further concerned that some children are prevented from living and growing up in their families only because of poverty. 49. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen preventive measures at community level to support and strengthen the families, including family education and awareness and the use of cashtransfer programmes such as the Bono de Desarrollo Humano in order to prevent children from being separated from their families; (b) Protect children who are separated from their parents, give support from local services to these children and strengthen kinship and foster-care capacity to support them; (c) Ensure that children placed back in their families are monitored closely and reviewed regularly and parents given counselling and support; and (d) Undertake a comprehensive study on the situation of children of migrant families, with a view to developing adequate strategies to ensure their protection and the full enjoyment of their rights through, inter alia, community support programmes, education and information campaigns and schools programmes; and (e) Consider introducing legal measures to prevent children from being left behind by their migrant parents. Children deprived of a family environment 50. The Committee is concerned that, although the State party states its preference for family-type care over institutional care, most children deprived of their family environment are placed in institutions. It is therefore concerned at the high number of children living in 10