A/HRC/19/35 and administrative staff in schools; medical staff in health centres; social workers in welfare centres and specialized interventions. (b) Introduce and enforce sanctions against all perpetrators of violence against children in the streets. (c) Ensure that child-sensitive counselling, complaint and reporting mechanisms are easily accessible to street-connected children. 73. As a minimum, States should decriminalize survival behaviours such as begging, loitering, vagrancy, running away and other acts, and ensure that children with street-connections are not forcibly rounded-up or treated like criminals or delinquents for survival activities. 74. With regard to good practices, the High Commissioner recommends that States engage consultations on criteria for good practices with street-connected children, so as to be able to identify and implement good practices aimed at improving support for fulfilling the rights of street-connected children. 75. In particular, States should propose and lead, in partnership with the United Nations, civil society and the private sector, national, sub-regional and regional multistakeholder forums that include children, youth and local community representatives to discuss and agree criteria for good practices and to develop indicators and mechanisms to identify and share good practices. 76. The High Commissioner for Human Rights recommends that States develop systemic mechanisms to collect data and share information about children in street situations. States should aim to develop a comprehensive and coordinated system of data collection about children, with disaggregated data so as to be able to identify discrimination and/or disparities in the realization of rights, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Such system should enable the identification of children in street situations by circumstances, connections, characteristics and experiences, in order to design strategies, policies and programmes, detect obstacles to and recognize progress in their implementation, through gathering evidence. This means collecting qualitative as well as quantitative data, and ensuring that children, as experts on their own lives, participate in information gathering, analysis and dissemination of research. 77. In particular, States should: (a) Invest in national data collection and information sharing about children with street connections, in partnership with civil society, the private sector and academia. (b) Approach intergovernmental agencies to propose the development of an international coordinating mechanism for knowledge sharing, as well as methodologies and tools to support States in collecting, analysing and sharing data about children in street situations. (c) Encourage and support participatory research with street-connected children and families to inform policy-making and design of specialized interventions. 78. As a minimum, States should assess the coverage of children in street situations within general data collection relevant to children’s rights, address the challenges as necessary, and disaggregate data wherever available, in order to be able to identify and analyse information gathered about children in street situations. 17