CRC/C/NIC/CO/4 (c) Earmark resources for the Ministry of Labour to monitor and enforce labour laws and regulations, particularly in the informal sector. Children in street situations 74. While noting information from the State party that a study to evaluate the causes, extent and character of street children and youth gangs is ongoing, the Committee is concerned at the high number of children living in the streets, due to multiple factors such as abandonment, maltreatment, domestic and sexual violence. 75. The Committee encourages the State party to increase preventive and protection action in the family and society, based on the understanding and knowledge of cultural, social and economic determinants that push children to the streets. In particular, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Develop and implement, with the active involvement of street children themselves, a comprehensive strategy for the reduction of their numbers, and allocate the necessary resources and developing guidelines for public services and NGOs to implement and monitor such strategy; (b) Support, with the active involvement of children, family reunification programmes or other foster care, ensuring the best interests of the child and providing psychosocial and economic support to the family; (c) Ensure that children in street situations attend and stay in school and provide them with adequate shelter, food and health services, bearing in mind the different needs of boys and girls; and (d) Raise public awareness on the plight of children in street situations and combat misconceptions and prejudices through targeted measures to prevent, investigate and punish discrimination and violence. Sexual exploitation and trafficking 76. The Committee is concerned at the high number of children, particularly girls, who fall victims to trafficking, and the insufficient priority given to combating this crime. The Committee notes that the Penal Code establishes urgent protection measures for victims of sexual violence and exploitation, but is concerned at the lack of effective strategies and institutional developments to ensure rapid detection, protection and support for the victims. 77. The Committee recommends that the State party allocate adequate resources and enhance government action and coordination in order to combat sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and women, and in particular: (a) Renew, through a participatory process, the National Plan against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, which expired in 2008; (b) Intensify training of police officers, prosecutors, judges and other public officials to identify, investigate and sanction sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and women; (c) Implement appropriate policies and programmes for the prevention, recovery and reintegration of child victims, in accordance with the outcome documents adopted at the World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children held in Stockholm (1996), Yokohama (2001) and Rio de Janeiro (2008); and (d) Refer to the concluding observations on the State party’s initial report adopted by the Committee on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (CRC/C/OPSC/NIC/CO/1). 16