CRC/C/15/Add.180 page 8 (a) Continue to develop measures for the prevention of family disintegration and the strengthening of family development; (b) Improve social assistance and support to families to help them with their child-rearing responsibilities, including through parental education, counselling and community-based programmes; (c) Provide adequate training to social workers; (d) Seek international assistance from, among others, UNICEF. Children deprived of a family environment 37. Noting the official priority policy on deinstitutionalization included in the Marriage and Family Code, the Committee expresses its serious concern about the high number of children, including children with disabilities, who are deprived of a family environment and placed in institutions, because foster care or other forms of family-based alternative care are not sufficiently developed and available. In addition, it notes with concern that institutions, owing to a lack of resources, provide children with very low quality housing and care and that children lack effective mechanisms to communicate concerns and complaints about their placement. 38. In light of article 20 of the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Take effective measures, including the development of strategies and awareness-raising activities, to prevent and reduce the abandonment of children; (b) Take effective measures to increase and strengthen foster care, family-type foster homes and other family-based alternative care; (c) Place children in institutions only as a measure of last resort; (d) Take all necessary measures to improve conditions in institutions; (e) workers; Provide support and training for personnel in institutions, including social (f) Establish effective mechanisms to receive and address complaints from children in care, to monitor standards of care and, in light of article 25 of the Convention, to establish periodic review of placements; (g) Provide adequate follow-up and reintegration support and services for children who leave institutional care.