CRC/C/VNM/CO/3-4 Drug and substance abuse 63. While noting the information provided by the State party during the dialogue about its plan to introduce a community-based treatment for children with drug addiction, the Committee is highly concerned about: (a) addiction; The administrative detention system imposed on children with drug (b) Reports of child ill-treatment in the drug detention centres and lack of inspections; (c) 64. Child detainees in these centres not being separated from adults. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Pursue its plan to revise the administrative detention system for children with drug addiction, and develop alternatives to deprivation of the child’s liberty in such situations, focusing on community-based treatment. In doing so, the State party should ensure the provision of child rehabilitation and reintegration programmes; (b) Establish an effective system of monitoring of drug detention centres, including regular inspections, and investigate effectively all child abuse cases in these centres, with a view to bringing perpetrators to justice and providing child victims with a remedy; (c) Ensure that child detainees are separated from adults in all detention settings, and guarantee the availability of child detention cells. Standard of living 65. While welcoming the significant efforts made by the State party to reduce poverty, which have decreased the rate of poor households by 2 per cent per year, and while noting that Viet Nam moved from the group of poorest countries to the group of lower middleincome countries in 2010, the Committee is deeply concerned at the high number of children who still live in poverty in the State party and at the disproportional concentration of child poverty within certain ethnic minorities and migrant populations. In addition, while noting the national target programme on clean water and rural sanitation currently under way, the Committee expresses its concern about serious gaps in the supply of safe drinking water, especially in rural areas and among ethnic minority populations, and about the inadequate sanitation facilities in the home and at schools, which affect the health of the child and the ability to retain children in schools. 66. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Increase and sustain the social assistance cash transfer programme (Decree 67/Decree 13) for low-income families with children, and ensure that such support is extended to all poor or near-poor families of ethnic minority origin, families of informal workers and families of migrants; (b) Strengthen its efforts, also through the effective implementation of the National Programme on Poverty Reduction, in combating poverty among marginalized groups and in particular ethnic minority and migrant groups, while focusing on the issues relating to the needs and rights of children. In this respect the State party should take measures to promote equal opportunities for all persons, including children in particular, and stimulate economic growth and development for the ethnic minority groups and the indigenous communities, especially with regard to employment, education and health care with a focus on services for children; 16