CRC/C/15/Add.170 page 14 (c) There is a shortage of qualified personnel to provide health and educational support to children with disabilities; (d) Many children with disabilities in need of alternative care are institutionalized, that residential care for persons with disabilities remains of poor quality, limiting respect for children’s rights, and that children in some institutions experience abuse and inhuman or degrading treatment; (e) Children with disabilities are often not consulted in decisions that affect them; (f) Access facilities for persons, including children, with physical disabilities to public areas, buildings and transport remain poor and legislation in this regard is not sufficiently enforced. 59. Noting the State party’s efforts in this regard, and in the light of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities (General Assembly resolution 48/96) and the Committee’s recommendations adopted at its day of general discussion on the rights of children with disabilities (CRC/C/69, para. 338), the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue to implement programmes to improve respect for the rights of children with disabilities and ensure that children are consulted in decisions that affect them, in accordance with their age and abilities; (b) Improve data collection on children with disabilities; (c) Take steps, including through the use of information campaigns, to end discrimination against children with disabilities; (d) Ensure that children with disabilities, in particular those children living in institutions, are protected from all forms of neglect, abuse or inhuman or degrading treatments; (e) Recruit additional qualified personnel to provide, inter alia, health and educational support to children with disabilities; (f) Strengthen efforts to limit recourse to institutional solutions for children with disabilities in need of alternative care and improve the quality of residential care; (g) Continue efforts to establish adequate secondary schools for children with special needs, while also continuing to place emphasis on integrating children with disabilities into the ordinary education system where this would be in the best interests of the child, and ensure that all children with disabilities have access to secondary school education;