A/75/183 (f) Provide alternative care arrangements, preferably family-based alternatives, for migrant children without parental care, while facilitating family tracing and reunification according to the best interests of the child; (g) Strive to ensure the provision of all the material, social and emotional conditions necessary to ensure the comprehensive protection of the rights of the child, allowing for children’s holistic development while in alternative care and reception facilities; (h) Take affirmative action to overcome obstacles in order to ensure migrant children’s access to health care, education, adequate housing and other rights and essential services. Such measures may include reviewing laws and regulations, overcoming administrative barriers, developing firewalls between public service providers and immigration enforcement authorities, providing interim documentation to facilitate access to services, making concrete efforts to overcome language and other access barriers, ensuring the affordability of services and increasing awareness of the human rights and entitlements of migrant children and their families; (i) Develop national child protection case management frameworks that are resourced to effectively cater for durable individual solutions for migrant children and their families; (j) Regulate and provide oversight for alternative care and reception arrangements for migrant children and their families; (k) Gather and publish age-, gender- and disability-disaggregated data on the use of immigration detention of migrant children and their families and of the national availability and capacity of alternative care and reception arrangements for children. Data-gathering and reporting can serve as a basis for assessing progress achieved on ending immigration detention of children and fostering the development of evidence-based policies; (l) Develop human rights-based, gender-responsive and child-sensitive migration policies to ensure that every migrant child, regardless of his or her migration status, is considered as a child first and foremost. All migrant children should be entitled in law and in practice to all the rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. States should ensure that the child’s best interest is the guiding principle in the design and implementation of migration policies and a primary consideration in all actions and decisions that concern each migrant child, including decision-making on migration procedures and the consideration of alternative care and reception solutions; (m) Provide mandatory training for officials, first responders and those who come into contact with migrant children with regard to vulnerability indicators, child-sensitive assessments of protection needs and the identification of appropriate referral mechanisms and the rights of the child; (n) Establish partnerships and deepen cooperation, at the local, national, regional and international levels, in the development and implementation of non-custodial alternative care and reception arrangements for migrant children and their families. Members of the international community should continue to fund, develop and actively promote innovative child-rights compliance initiatives; (o) States are encouraged to continue efforts to ensure a human rightsbased, child-sensitive and gender-responsive implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and to implement recommendations contained in the global study on children deprived of liberty (A/74/136). This should include the translation of the principle of international 22/23 20-09734

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