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(iv)
Promote non-violent values and awareness-raising;
(v)
Provide recovery and social reintegration services;
(vi)
Ensure accountability and end impunity.
(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 child is
protected from all forms of physical, sexual and mental violence and to gain momentum for
concrete and, where appropriate, time-bound actions to prevent and respond to such
violence and abuse;
(c)
Cooperate with and support the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on Violence Against Children.
4. 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
46.
The Committee notes the enactment of new legislation whereby the public services of
social assistance, organized at local level, are the main suppliers of social services with primary
and preventive character, while the local councils are now responsible for both preventing child
separation and for organizing day care services. The Committee notes the difficulties local
authorities and the NAPCR are facing due to the lack of proper information, data, planning and
follow-up mechanisms in prevention, decision-making, implementation, and supervision.
47.
The Committee recommends that the State party extend its support to families by
fully implementing existing laws, in particular by continuing to reinforce the capacity of
the public services for social assistance at all levels, improve the availability of day care
services, improve access to financial and professional support for all families in
preparation for parenthood. The Committee further recommends that the State party
identifies and elaborates strategies for supporting families at risk of separation, preventing
abandonment of children, providing parent education, strengthening parenting capacities,
and the overall climate of child-rearing.
48.
The Committee recommends that a national assessment and documentation and
evaluation system is organized, enabling the local authorities to follow the professional
guidelines, gathering data and information, making care plans and monitoring and
evaluating their activities in a coordinated, inter-sectoral manner.
Families affected by migration
49.
The Committee, while noting that some programmes have been undertaken and a draft
law aiming to improve the identification and monitoring of children left behind by parents
migrating for work abroad, is concerned at the high number of such children remaining in a
vulnerable situation. The Committee also notes the increased incidence in recent years of
unaccompanied or separated Romanian children coming to the attention of foreign authorities