Section 3

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

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 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

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.