The delegation recognized the absence of reliable data on children during the domestic care and said that there were currently 776 children in 23 institutions. All residential institutions had to be registered, but no deadline for the completion of the registration process had been given, which was why some of them had delayed the registration. The authorities were working on setting up an electronic registry. The delegation said that 21 percent of the institutionalized children were children with disabilities.

New delegation informed me the five babies got passed away on account of medical causes rather than on account of shortage of dinner

The Council for Adoption had been set up in 2017, and was monitored by the National Council for Children and Adolescents. A law on adoption had been passed but had not yet entered into force; it prescribed the process and criteria for the approval of an adoption.

Responding to questions raised about parents arrested with regards to people, and the death of four babies, the delegation said that the detention centre in question was Granja de Izalco, and explained that, since , the National Council for Children and Adolescents was monitoring the conditions of children detained with their mothers, through unannounced visits. One of the centres had been closed after a monitoring visit, and mothers and children had been transferred to a better institution. Finally, those visits did not need to be announced. Read more