CRC/C/VNM/CO/3-4 systematic periodic review of the quality of care and regular training of its relevant professionals, including in child rights, while taking into account the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (General Assembly resolution 64/142, annex); (d) Develop community-based alternative care policies and programmes with a view to reducing the number of children placed in institutions; (e) Establish mechanisms for receiving complaints, for investigations and for prosecutions for child abuse in alternative care settings and ensure that victims of abuse have access to complaints procedures, counselling, medical care and other recovery assistance as appropriate. Adoption 51. The Committee welcomes the approval of the Law on Adoption in 2010, in line with the key principles of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption, as well as the establishment of the Intercountry Adoption Department under Decision No. 337/2003/QB-BTP in 2003. The Committee further takes note of the State party’s statement that intercountry adoption is considered as a last resort after exhausting all other options inside the country, and also of the information provided by the State party during the dialogue on the decrease in the number of child adoptions in 2011. 52. With a view to continuing this development, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen the implementation of the Law on Adoption and allocate sufficient resources for its effective enforcement, and reinforce the mandate of the Intercountry Adoption Department so that it effectively monitors intercountry adoptions and provide it with sufficient human and technical resources; (b) In compliance with article 21 (d) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ensure effective and systematic monitoring of all private adoption agencies, consider options to limit even further the number of private adoption agencies, and ensure that adoption processes do not provide financial gains to any party; (c) Continue to promote domestic adoption for children who would otherwise not have a family environment. Violence against children, including abuse and neglect of children 53. While noting that national legislation contains various provisions on violence against children and bans child abuse, the Committee remains concerned about the lack of inclusion of all forms of child abuse and neglect in national legislation in line with the definition provided in article 19 of the Convention. The Committee expresses its concern at the widespread violence against and abuse of children and in particular girls; the lack of appropriate measures, mechanisms and resources to prevent and combat domestic violence, including physical and sexual abuse and the neglect of children; the lack of child-friendly reporting procedures; the limited access to services for abused children; and the lack of data on the aforementioned. 54. The Committee recommends that the State party, taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 13 (2011) on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence: (a) Reform domestic legislation to include all forms of child abuse in line with article 19 of the Convention, and disseminate the amended legislation among, in 12