(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: Child Safety in School

Topic: Child Safety in School

Guest:

Jyoti Gupta, (Principal, DPS Ghaziabad)
Jyoti Mathur, (Director, Research Child Protection, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation)
Aditi Tandon, (Special Correspondent, The Tribune)
Madulika Sharma, (Advisor, Education, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights)

Topic Description:

A petition seeking notification and implementation of guidelines for fixing accountability on schools for the safety of children has been filed in the Supreme Court. The petition has been filed by NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, run by Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi. The petitioner has prayed for a direction to the Central government to notify and implement the Fixing Accountability of School Management towards Safety and Security of Children in School-Guidelines or Accountability Guidelines. The Accountability Guidelines lay down the responsibilities of school management towards ensuring the safety and security of children in schools, both government and private. The Accountability Guidelines, prepared by the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MoHRD) in consultation with the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), have not been notified yet. The cause of action for filing the present petition has arisen because despite there being various laws relating to child safety and security along with the recent Draft Accountability Guidelines, there is no confidence in the implementation of these laws, the petition states. On this edition of the big picture we analyse child safety in schools.