NGOs will be roped in to educate parents, students and schools staff; schools too, will be scrutinised
Pune: After a couple of incidents of child abuse in the city schools, the office of Deputy Director, Education has swung into action and decided to conduct refresher trainings on how to deal with such cases. The training will be imparted to school principals, teachers and the in-house counsellors.
The office has given instructions to all education officers to arrange the meetings of all the school principals and issue guidelines related to the school bus policies and the school bus committees.
Meanwhile, the director of education (Primary) Mahavir Mane has also ordered the Education Board of the Pune Municipal Corporation to check whether all the schools in their jurisdictions are complying with the various norms like having approved principals, staff, building permission, school bus committees, their grants, Parents Teachers Associations (PTAs) and other things.
Mane has instructed the chairman of the PMC Education Board, Supe to conduct the 'check-up' of the schools and submit a detailed report to him.
Deputy director of the education Suman Shinde has also asked the education officers to hold the meetings of all the principals so that they can be briefed on child molestation cases.
"We had conducted the training sessions with schools in which the principals were trained on the new act Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and how to deal with the child sexual abuse cases," said Shinde.
She said that it seems that the knowledge of these training is not getting transferred to other teachers and the principals and in order to refresh the school, they have decided to conduct such trainings for other school staff as well. She said that students are also need to teach on good touch and bad touch.
"With the help of some NGOs which are working in the area, we will spread awareness among the schools, parents and students once the academic sessions starts after vacations," said Shinde.
PMC's Education Board to check
Whether schools have appointed principals, staff as per the prescribed norms
Whether the schools have valid building permission
Whether school bus committees, their grants, Parents Teachers Associations (PTAs) and other things are in place
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