16 67. Pursuant to the Child Welfare Act, Current Status of Child Abuse Survey was conducted once in 2011, but with the amendment to the Child Welfare Act, the survey on child abuse was integrated into a comprehensive survey on current status of the child as a whole. Since then, no more survey on child abuse has been conducted independently. 2) Questions 68. What are the progress and achievements of the measures taken to increase the Child Abuse Discovery Rate and the rate of report by mandatory reporters? 69. What are the related guidelines on reporting? Please provide information on the cause of the low reporting rate and government’s plan to increase the rate. 70. What is the government’s plan to enhance the protection system for the victims of child abuse? Issue 23. Budget on Child Abuse related Projects 1) Current status 71. Local child protection agencies are institutions conducting field inspection and counsel and investigate affected children when they reported a child abuse. Municipal governments had subsidized them, but the responsibility has been transferred to the central government in 2015 where the central government matches the amount that a municipal government earmarks. Thus, their budgets may vary by each local government's financial condition. 72. The Ministry of Health and Welfare is responsible for operating child protection agencies and child abuse related projects which, on the other hand, are financed by the crime victim protection fund of the Ministry of Justice. Likewise, the Ministry of Health and Welfare is in charge of setting up and running shelters for abused children, while they have to turn to the lottery fund of the Ministry of Economy and Finance for their budget. In a word, the budgets assigned to the projects to prevent child abuse are not from the department in charge but from somewhere else. 2) Questions 73. Does the government have any plan to bridge the regional gap in budgets of the local child protection agencies? 74. Please present the budget status of child protection agencies and shelters for abused children, the historical trend of the budget for the last five years and its implementation. In particular, how much budget is assigned per child in the shelters? 75. What does the government plan to secure appropriate budget for the child abuse related projects?