c) The adoption of various policies and strategies such as the Alternative Care Policy (2012), the National Protocol on Gender Based Violence, the Child Justice Strategy, Agenda for Prosperity, the Age Assessment Guidelines, the National Standard for the Protection of Children in the Criminal Justice System, Guidelines for the management and sustenance of child justice: the Bombali Chain-Links initiative, 2012 and Quality Care Standards for Children’s Homes. d) The establishment of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the Child Rights Act of 2007 and designing of an implementation plan. e) The establishment of the National Child Protection Coordination Committee at national and district levels by the Ministry of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs, for coordination of child protection in the State Party. And the establishment of various multi-sectorial committees, sub-committees and taskforces established to coordinate the development, implementation and monitoring of interventions for especially vulnerable groups of children or specific child protection issues. f) The establishment of The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) in terms of the Human Rights Commission Act (2004) as well as the establishment of the parliamentary human rights committee and the Office of the Ombudsman. g) The delivery of trainings to different role players that take part in the implementation and administration of the child rights including the systematization of the distribution and dissemination of information about the ACRWC to adults and children through training and advocacy programmes. III. AREAS OF CONCERN AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. General measures of implementation 5. The Committee notes that despite the enactment of the Child Rights Act, there are various legislative gaps that hinder the full realisation of children’s rights in the Country. These include, discriminatory clauses in the Constitution of the State Party under Section 27 which gives leeway for discrimination in the laws dealing with adoption, marriage and divorce; lack of provision for access to services by victims of trafficking; failure to incorporate a provision for regularization of status of victims in the Trafficking in Persons Act and lack of provisions for procedures of arrest investigation, remand as well as lack of a stipulated time period for pre-trial detention for children in conflict with the law. The Committee recommends that the State Party | 3