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to advise and make recommendations to the Government on all issues and aspects relating to the care, protection, rehabilitation, development and participation of children at the national, regional and international level;

to develop programmes and strategies aiming at educating the society and to raise awareness throughout society, including at the family level, regarding the rights and dignity of a child;

to develop programmes aiming at educating the society in the prevention of child abuse and neglect as well as the prevention of child’s involvement in immoral or criminal acts;

to ensure that the standard of services provided by

Government agencies and departments, non-governmental bodies or organizations and private sectors for the care, protection and rehabilitation of children meet the needs of children;

to co-ordinate the various resources from all parties, including Government agencies and departments, non-governmental bodies or organizations and private sectors, who are involved in providing services for the care, protection, rehabilitation and development of children;

to co-ordinate and monitor the implementation of the national policy and national plan of action relating to

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children by Government agencies and departments, non-governmental bodies or organizations and private sectors;

to collect and collate data and information, and undertake and promote research, relating to the care, protection, rehabilitation, development and participation of children;

to design an efficient and effective management system throughout Malaysia for children in need of protection;

to promote the participation of children in the decision making process in matters affecting them;

to monitor the activities and performance of functions of

Child Protection Teams and Child Welfare Teams; and

to do such other things as it thinks fit to enable it to perform its functions effectively or which are incidental to the performance of its functions.