National Disaster Management Guidelines School Safety Policy

SCHOOL Safety
POLICY Guidelines
Executive Summary
The National School Safety Policy Guidelines stand for a vision of India where all children and their
teachers, and other stakeholders in the school community are safe from any kind of risks due to
natural hazards. The Guidelines focus upon the urgent need to strengthen risk resilience of schools
in rural as well as urban areas of the country. It is hoped that this document will be useful to ensure
that all school children across the country remain safe from any kind of disaster risk as they access
their right to education.
The Guidelines highlight upon the following key elements:
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Addresses the vertical of school safety in a more inclusive and holistic manner in the
national policy sphere
Capacity building of children, teachers, school personnel, state and district education
machinery on school safety and disaster preparedness
Anchoring /implementing child centered community based disaster risk reduction in
the local context
Mainstreaming risk and safety education in the school curriculum.
Linking school safety in the existing government schemes and policies.
● Strengthening coordination amongst institutional structures at the district, state, and
national levels to promote effective child rights governance in disaster situations
Chapter 1 introduces the concept and examines the importance on school safety as placed
in the various national policies and guidelines.
Chapter 2 details the key challenges faced while addressing safety issues in schools, the
core principles of school safety which have been kept in mind while formulating the said guidelines
and the vision and objectives of the guidelines.
Chapter 3 details the various activities that need to be undertaken at the state, district
and local levels to be able to address school safety in a holistic manner. This includes, school safety
planning at designated levels, preparation of school disaster management plans, implementation
of safety actions (structural and non –structural measures, capacity building of stakeholders,
incorporation of school safety and disaster preparedness in core curriculum, monitoring of risk and
mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction in all the school education initiatives.
Chapter 4 details the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders to ensure
school safety at national, state and local levels.
Chapter 5 highlights specific actions towards school safety that can be undertaken by
different stakeholders within the existing framework for delivery of education.
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