CRC/C/CRI/CO/4 the number of convictions and the sanctions imposed in such cases. It further notes with concern that there is only one National Integrated Care Centre in the State party providing evaluation and follow-up services, intensive consultation and shelter for children and adolescents who are victims of violence. In that regard, the Committee takes note of the extensive recommendations on domestic violence addressed to the State party during the universal periodic review of Costa Rica in 2009. 54. The Committee, drawing the State party’s attention to its general comment No. 13 (2011) on the right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence, as well as the recommendations made by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2007 and the Committee against Torture in 2008, recommends that the State party: (a) Review and amend existing legislation in line with article 19 and its implementation within the holistic framework of the Convention to ensure the absolute prohibition of all forms of violence against children in all settings and provide for appropriate sanctions against perpetrators without resorting to mediation; (b) Consider amending the Domestic Violence Act (1996) in order to define domestic violence as a crime to provide for criminal sanctions; (c) Allocate adequate funds for the implementation of legislative and other measures to end abuse, neglect and violence against children and women; (d) Adopt a data-collection system that compiles disaggregated information on and monitors cases of abuse and neglect of children; (e) Promote abuse and neglect prevention programmes with a particular focus on domestic violence against girls and female adolescents; (f) Strengthen public awareness-raising programmes and provide information, parental guidance and counselling to prevent domestic violence against children, including sexual violence, and encourage children and women who are victims of violence, as well as teachers, doctors, social workers and other caretakers, to report incidents of such violence to the police; (g) Provide systematic training to judges, prosecutors, police and other law enforcement officers on how to prevent and monitor domestic violence and receive, investigate and prosecute complaints about such violence in a child- and gendersensitive manner; and (h) Ensure that children are represented by an officially designated guardian during domestic violence proceedings against their parents. F. Basic health and welfare (arts. 6, 18 (para. 3), 23, 24, 26, 27 (paras. 1–3) of the Convention) Children with disabilities 55. While welcoming the State party’s ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Committee notes with concern that it has not adopted any implementing legislation or an integrated policy to protect the rights of children with disabilities. It is also concerned that, owing to excessive centralization of health services in urban areas, the coverage and quality of health-care services for children and adolescents with disabilities is inadequate in rural areas, and that there is a lack of specialized rehabilitation services in the State party. The Committee is concerned about the lack of screening programmes for early detection of disabilities. The Committee is seriously 12