Office of the Ombudsman, Samoa‘s National Human Rights Institution Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child – September 2015 recommendations were implemented and the NHRI is currently working to provide new Police recruits with human rights training to prevent incidents such as this in the future. 103. The Government has yet to implement the Committee‘s recommendation in its last periodic report to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to an internationally acceptable level. In General Comment No. 10, the Committee on the Rights of the Child concludes that ‗a minimum age of criminal responsibility below the age of 12 years is considered by the Committee not to be internationally acceptable‘.119 Under the Youth Offenders Act 2007, the age of criminal responsibility begins when a child turns 10. The NHRI therefore considers the Government to be failing to meet its Article 4 (3) responsibility to establish a minimum age level that is internationally accepted and that this should be immediately reviewed. Recommendation 27: That the Samoan Government review the Youth Offenders Act 2007 and raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility to an internationally accepted level. 3 104. Recommendations The National Human Rights Institution makes the following recommendations:  Recommendation 1: That the Samoan Government continues to strengthen its efforts to ensure that the provision and principles of the Convention are widely recognised and understood by adults and children alike. In this regard, it encourages the Samoan Government to continue to disseminate and raise awareness of the Convention among children, their parents and other caregivers and all relevant professional groups working with and for children. The Committee also invites the State party to engage with community leaders, including church leaders, in discussion on children‘s rights in the context of Samoan culture, with a view to bringing about further changes in the attitudes and behaviour of these key opinion leaders in society  Recommendation 2: The NHRI endorses the findings and recommendations of the SLRC‘s Child Care and Protection Legislation Report with regards to the inconsistencies in the definition of a child in domestic legislation. The NHRI recommends that the Samoan government include all the recommendations from the SLRC report into the Child Care and Protection Bill. Furthermore, the NHRI recommends that the Samoan Government amend and present the Bill at the first session of Parliament after the next election in March 2016.  Recommendation 3: That the Samoan Government ensures that the DVU (and all institutions dealing with reports of violence against children) to regularly collects statistical data on domestic and sexual 119 UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), CRC General Comment No. 10 (2007): Children‘s Rights in Juvenile Justice, 25 April 2007, CRC/C/GC/10 Paragraph 32 33