A/RES/74/133
Rights of the child
mental health to a periodic review of the treatment provided to the child and all other
circumstances relevant to his or her placement;
(e) Ensuring that the removal of children from the care of their family should
be seen as a measure of last resort and should, whenever possible, be temporary and
removal decisions should be regularly reviewed and the child’s return to parental care,
once the causes of removal have been resolved or have disappeared, should have the
best interests of the child as a primary consideration and be based on comprehensive
assessment;
(f) Developing and strengthening inclusive and responsive family-oriented
policies and programmes for poverty reduction, also designed to promote and
strengthen parents’ ability to care for their children, and to confront family poverty
and social exclusion, recognizing the multidimensional aspects of poverty, focusing
on inclusive and quality education and lifelong learning for all, including initiatives
to promote involved and positive parenting, health and well -being for all at all ages,
equal access to economic resources, full and productive employment, decent work,
social security, livelihoods and social cohesion and promoting and protecting the
human rights of all family members;
(g) Providing gender-sensitive and child-sensitive social protection systems,
which are key to ensuring poverty reduction, including, as appropriate, targeted cash
transfers for families in vulnerable situations, as can be the case of families headed
by a single parent, in particular those headed by women or by children, and which are
most effective in reducing poverty when accompanied by other measures, such as
providing access to basic services, high-quality education, affordable quality
childcare services and health-care services;
(h) Supporting and assisting families’ and caregivers’ capacities in regard to
child development, including through comprehensive education and training, and the
promotion of involved and positive parenting to enable them to provide children with
care in a safe environment;
(i) Providing early and comprehensive information, services and support to
children with disabilities and their families with a view to preventing concealment,
abandonment, neglect, discrimination and segregation and to ensuring they have
equal rights with respect to family life;
(j) Designing and implementing programmes to provide pregnant adolescents
and adolescent mothers with education, including access to quality education, social
services and support, to enable them to continue and complete their education, care
for their children and protect them from discrimination, as well as to ensure healthy
and safe pregnancy;
(k) Ensuring that all decisions, initiatives and approaches related to children
without parental care are made on a case-by-case basis, by suitably qualified
professionals in a multidisciplinary team, through a judicial, administrative or other
adequate and recognized procedure, with legal safeguards, taking into account the
best interests of the child, and regularly reviewed, with a view to ensuring the child ’s
safety, security and participation, and grounded in the best interests of the child
concerned, including through incorporating a gender perspective and in conformity
with the principle of non-discrimination;
(l) Putting in place rigorous and systematic judicial and administ rative
“gatekeeping” procedures that are designed to ensure that quality alternative care for
children is used only after consideration of the best interests of the child as a primary
consideration and that children receive the most appropriate care for th eir needs, in
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