undertaken as an alternative to family environment to MVC in the context of the Law of the Child Act and the Zanzibar Children’s Act. 78. The State Party also recognizes the right of a child who has been placed by the competent authorities for the purpose of care, protection or treatment of his/her physical or mental health to periodic review of the treatment provided and all other circumstances relevant to his/her placement. In this regard, section 124(1) of the Zanzibar Children’s Act imposes onto the minister responsible for children’s affairs the duty, which can be delegated to any person within the public service, to: (a) secure the effective administration of any residential establishment for children that has been established by the Government under section 123(2), and (b) monitor the administration of any residential establishment approved under section 123(3). This duty aims at promoting the children’s well-being, integration with their peers and the community and their full development, particularly as regards their education and health. 7 9 . In Zanzibar, the promotion of the well-being and development of children in residential establishments, particularly as regards their education and health, every residential establishment approved under section 123 (3) is monitored at the lower level by a committee established under section 125(1) of the Zanzibar Children’s Act. The committee, which comprises of not less than four fit persons, has a duty to oversee the management of the respective residential establishment. In achieving its oversight role, the committee shall: (a) visit the establishment from time to time, including unannounced; (b) call for all books, papers and records relating to the management and discipline of the establishment; (c) interview members of the staff and children, including offering them an interview in private; (d) inspect and test – (i) the quality and quantity of the food; (ii) (iii) the children’s living conditions; and arrangements to respect the children’s privacy; (e) inquire into the maintenance of discipline and behaviour-management, having regard to the prohibition on corporal punishment and other humiliating forms of punishment; (f) ascertain provision for the education, training, welfare, recreation and health of the children; (g) investigate any complaint made by any child or member of the staff; and (h) exercise such other powers as may be prescribed. 80. The Zanzibar Children’s Act allows any member of the committee, who has any concern about the running of the establishment, where reasonable, to first inform the Officer Responsible or appropriate member of staff of this concern; and, if this does not resolve the matter, inform the minister responsible for children. In terms of section 126 of the Zanzibar Children’s Act, the Minister ‘shall direct inspection of an approved residential establishment to be carried out by a welfare officer at any time to ensure that such establishment is being maintained at the required standards. 81. In Tanzania Mainland, the State Party, has put in a place a periodic review and monitoring mechanism of the treatment provided to children who have been deprived of a family environment. The Commissioner for Social Welfare has the duty, under section 134(1) of the Law of the Child Act, to monitor and supervise approved residential homes or institutions. At the approved residential home or institutional level, the approved residential home and institution is obliged, under subsection (2) of section 134, to establish a committee of not less than four fit persons for overseeing the running and general administration of the children's welfare and development. In addition, under section 135 of the Law of the Child Act, the Commissioner for Social Welfare may give such orders and directions to an 26