Few schools aware of NCPCR’s safety guidelines

Bengaluru | Saturday | 14th July, 2018

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The NCPCR manual has a list of 164 questions, which cover infrastructure, hygiene, psychological issues, among other parameters, for assessing children’s safety in schools. This is when it emerged that not many schools had implemented the measures, nor were many aware of the manual. Grievance committee for sexual abuse, which should include 25% students, 50% management representatives and teachers, and 25% PTA members3. At the moment, apart from the basic security measures that private schools provided, not all of them have all the prescribed measures in place, he added. We need a lot of measures to be taken to impart them with knowledge about the safety and security measures,” said Vasudeva Sharma, a child rights activist..