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violence against children in all settings and effective and appropriate sanctions against
perpetrators; 17
(e)
Provide adequate budget allocations for the implementation of legislation and
all other measures adopted to end violence against children;
(f)
Ensure the protection of child victims and witnesses and effective access to
redress and reparation;
(g)
Ensure that relevant legislation provides adequate protection of children in
relation to media and ICT;
(h)
Establish and implement social programmes to promote optimal positive
child-rearing by providing, through integrated services, necessary support for the child and
for those who have the care of the child;
(i)
Enforce law and judicial procedures in a child-friendly way, including
remedies available to children when rights are violated;
(j)
Establish and support an independent national institution of children’s rights.
42.
Administrative measures should reflect governmental obligations to establish
policies, programmes, monitoring and oversight systems required to protect the child from
all forms of violence. These include:
(a)
At the national and sub-national government levels:
(i)
Establishing a government focal point to coordinate child protection
strategies and services;
(ii)
Defining the roles, responsibilities and relationships between stakeholders on
inter-agency steering committees with a view to their effectively managing,
monitoring and holding accountable the implementing bodies at national and
subnational levels;
(iii) Ensuring that the process of decentralizing services safeguards their quality,
accountability and equitable distribution;
(iv) Implementing systematic and transparent budgeting processes in order to
make the best use of allocated resources for child protection, including prevention;
(v)
Establishing a comprehensive and reliable national data collection system in
order to ensure systematic monitoring and evaluation of systems (impact analyses),
services, programmes and outcomes based on indicators aligned with universal
standards, and adjusted for and guided by locally established goals and objectives;
(vi) Providing independent national human rights institutions with support and
promoting the establishment of specific child rights mandates such as child rights
ombudsmen where these do not yet exist. 18
(b)
At the levels of governmental, professional and civil society institutions:
(i)
Developing and implementing (through participatory processes which
encourage ownership and sustainability):
a.
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Intra- and inter-agency child protection policies;
In the context of “sanctions”, the term “perpetrators” excludes children who harm themselves. The
treatment of children who harm other children must be educational and therapeutic.
See general comment No. 2, in particular paras. 1, 2, 4 and 19.
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