National Disaster Management Guidelines School Safety Policy

SCHOOL Safety
POLICY Guidelines
Section 4
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and encourage states to ensure school
safety.
Allocate resources for retrofitting of schools
to make them disaster risk resilient and
child friendly.
Incorporate disaster risk reduction in
teacher training programme across
institutes and universities.
Instruct NCERT to meaningfully educate
children not only on issues of disaster but
on overall ‘safety’.
4.4 State level Education
Authorities:
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Ensuring the safety of school children and
therefore actively engage with SDMAs
in seeking collaboration and technical
solutions for promoting safety.
Develop strategies, policies and regulations
for ensuring that all new schools/ classrooms
being constructed are disaster resilient and
child friendly.
● Allocate resources, periodic repair of
schools to make them disaster risk resilient
and child friendly.
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Incorporate disaster risk reduction in
teacher training programme across
institutes and universities.
● Instruct SCERT to meaningfully
educate children not only on issues of
disaster but on overall ‘safety’ as well.
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Include indicators related to ‘school safety’
in the monitoring formats of all schemes and
programmes like Learning Enhancement
programme
Work with other departments to ensure that
their resources when applied in and around
educational institutions are designed with a
‘safety’ lens.
Instruct SCERT to train Master Trainers from
each District Institute of Education and
Training (DIETs) for training of teachers and
students to engage them on school safety
issues; Master Trainers of each DIET would
in turn impart training to resource persons/
teachers of their respective districts.
4.5 District and Block level
Education Authorities:
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Accept responsibility for ensuring the
safety of school children and therefore
actively engage with DDMAs in seeking
collaboration and technical solutions for
promoting safety.
Engage with DDMAs in preparation of DDMPs
to provide inputs on school safety issues.
Also ensure in the DDMP that schools are
free for continuing educational activities as
soon as possible in the immediate aftermath
of a disaster.
● Reinforce the responsibility of school
management to take prevention, mitigation,
preparedness and response actions with
regard to safety of children and teachers.
● Implement strategies, policies and
regulations for ensuring that all new
schools/ classrooms being constructed are
disaster resilient and child friendly.
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Allocate resources for retrofitting of schools
to make them disaster risk resilient and
child friendly.
Instruct DIET to include school safety
training in the curriculum for training of
teachers. Work with other line departments
to ensure that their resources when applied
in and around educational institutions, are
designed with a ‘safety’ lens.
Grant authorisation to only those schools
that comply and continue compliance with
safety norms laid out in the building codes
and directives of the Hon’ble Supreme Court
of India in relation to safety of children.
● Facilitate training of Master Trainers
from each District Institute of Education
and Training for training of teachers and
students to engage them on school safety
issues
4.6 SCERT and DIETs:
● School safety agenda at the school :
Acknowledge that safety is an important
issue that requires sensitization and
training of teachers
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