4.4.2 As stated in previous reports, the Committee accepts that, other than in exceptional cases, child offenders should not be incarcerated, and that the provision of education and other programmes is not the DCS' responsibility. It must be emphasised however, that where children are in its care, the DCS must collaborate with stakeholders that share the responsibility of caring for delinquent children, in order to ensure that their needs are met, and that incarceration does not further damage them. It is hoped that the Child Justice Act, operational since April 2010, will result in greater co-ordination of such efforts. The DCS must provide quarterly updates on the number of children in incarceration, the length of their sentences as well as efforts made to divert them to alternative sentences/places of safety.