measures that meet actual needs, and allocate sufficient resources to encourage
women with disabilities to work in the labor market.
Article 7: Children with disabilities
32.
Points 28b) and 29b) of the Concluding Observations of the ROC’s Initial CRPD
Report stated that the sexual abuse of children with disabilities has been widely
reported in segregated special schools, and that International Review Committee
(hereinafter referred to as the IRC) urged our government to take steps to
investigate, respond to, and redress the sexual abuse of children with disabilities in
school settings. However, the NHRC discovered that the MOE has not yet
conducted a detailed statistical analysis of suspected cases of sexual violence.
Therefore, detailed factual information regarding the sexual abuse of children
with disabilities in special schools could not be learned, and the sexual abuse of
children with disabilities in special schools cannot be effectively prevented.
33. Points 28c) and 29c) of the Concluding Observations of the ROC’s Initial CRPD
Report indicated a disparity in the availability of resources to children with
disabilities in urban and rural settings, and the IRC recommended that the
government eliminate the distinction between resources available to rural and
urban families. Accordingly, to enable early detection of children with
developmental delays and respond accordingly, as well as to diminish the gap
between urban and rural settings, the MOHW developed and conducted a joint
assessment of early treatment services for children with developmental delays.
Nonetheless, per a Control Yuan investigation report 18 , since 2018, the Health
Promotion Administration of the MOHW (hereinafter referred to as the HPA) has
changed its procedures, instead providing subsidies to joint assessment centers for
child development organized and established by local governments. Thus, existing
problems such as case requirements and procedures being different between
different centers prevented the centers from fulfilling their functions. These
problems have yet to be resolved, and some local governments have failed to
develop assessment procedures for their assessment teams or to assist their joint
18
The Control Yuan investigation report approved on February 18, 2020.
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