CRC/C/MDA/CO/3 page 10 (c) To strengthen public awareness campaigns and provide information, parental guidance and counselling with a view, inter alia, to preventing child abuse and neglect; (d) To strengthen support for victims of abuse and neglect in order to ensure their access to adequate services for recovery, counselling and other forms of rehabilitation. 5. Basic health and welfare (arts. 6, 18, para. 3, 23-24, 26 and 27, paras. 1-3, of the Convention) Children with disabilities 50. The Committee notes the efforts of the State party aimed at assisting children with disabilities, but is concerned at the persisting inadequacy of educational, social and health services for children with disabilities and their families in their own living environment. In particular, the Committee notes that there remain many hurdles to ensuring equal access to education for children with disabilities and that, due to the absence of modern approaches to special education and adequate special facilities in schools, many children with mental and physical disabilities are institutionalized or leave school altogether. 51. The Committee recommends that the State party, in accordance with article 23 of the Convention and taking into account general comment No. 9(2006), continue to strengthen measures to protect and promote the rights of children with disabilities, inter alia by: (a) Developing a comprehensive policy for the protection of children with disabilities and for their equal access to social, educational and other services; (b) Undertaking greater efforts to make available the necessary professional and financial resources, especially at the local level, and to promote and expand community-based rehabilitation programmes, including parent support groups; (c) Pursuing efforts to ensure that children with disabilities, including moderate and severe developmental disabilities, are able to exercise their right to education to the maximum extent possible; (d) Undertaking the necessary measures to collect accurate disaggregated statistical data on children with disabilities; (e) Establishing a formal monitoring system for residential care homes for children which closely examines the implementation of the right to education for children with mental and other disabilities, as well as by ensuring that monitoring favours the participation of civil society organizations and incorporates concrete steps to follow up recommended actions; (f) Providing training for professional staff working with children with disabilities, such as teachers, social workers and health-care workers; (g) Ensuring the implementation of the Standard Rules for the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (General Assembly resolution 48/96, annex);