CAT/C/39/2
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“(r) The material conditions of juvenile detention centres must also be urgently
improved. The State party should ensure the application of the Statute of the Child and
Adolescent and adopt all necessary measures to provide educational and vocational
training, medical and recreation facilities to help reintegrate children and adolescents into
society;”
362. Through the Under-secretariat for the Promotion of the Rights of the Child and
Adolescent, agency responsible for the coordination of the Policy of Care to Children and
Adolescents, the Brazilian Government elaborated during the last few years, in the field of care
for adolescents in conflict with the law, the National System of Socio-educational Care
(SINASE). This represents the national policy of the federal Government in this area, in which it
seeks to define the competences of the federated units and thus attain the goal of strengthening
the socio-educational system. The development of SINASE was reached through partnerships
with the states, municipalities, civil society, justice system and ministries that deal directly with
these problems.
363. From the perspective of encouraging the care for adolescents in a network and under the
principles of the institutional incompleteness, decentralization, municipalization and operational
integration among the agencies of the system of justice, it is hoped that an important quality leap
will be achieved with the establishment of dialogue with state governments. The Federal
Government assumes the responsibility for the management of the state system of socialeducational care, mainly in what regards the municipalization of the socio-educational measures
in an open environment.
364. Thus, SINASE’s primordial goal is to put together an orderly ensemble of principles,
rules and standards that must be observed in the process of investigation of infractions, as
well as in the execution of socio-educational measures, by standardizing the policies of
socio-educational care in the country and establishing precepts to be observed by the
federated units.
365. It also institutes normative and explanatory rules related to the programs and sets criteria
strictly related to governmental and non-governmental agencies that intend to execute the
socio-educational measures, besides subsidizing programs in open medium and of deprivation of
freedom, with specific requirements for each.
366. To structure SINASE, national and international norms (Conventions, Constitution, Statute
of the Child and Adolescent, CONANDA resolutions and state governments’ plans) were
utilized, as well as several studies, proposals and experiences that have put into practice the new
legal paradigm.
367. To this must be added the effort expended in this period to elaborate the Draft Bill on the
Execution of Socio-Educational Measures, which is currently under examination in the
National Congress. This Draft Bill aims at overcoming the normative gaps through SINASE,
under the coordination of the Union with the participation of states, the Federal District and
municipalities.
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