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(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
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