Syed Sultan Ahmed's presentation on Safe School

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Safe Schools
By Syed Sultan Ahmed
Managing Director LXL Ideas
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2. • Degree of protection
• Reactive approach• Being protected
• Preventive approach
SAFETY is different form SECURITY
SAFETY
SECURITY
In order for security to be effective, the components of how our safety
is defined need to remain unchanged.
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3. Inferences
LXL SAFE SCHOOL Research
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4. When students were asked
What is most unsafe about your school ?
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5. Physical Safety
Bus Facilities
Washrooms
Male staff members!
They are dirty, have uncomfortable seats, have no conductors, drivers drive
recklessly
They are smelly and unclean, school staff uses students’ washrooms, even girls
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6. Emotional Safety
Bullying
Racism
Bullying, teasing and ragging: by seniors
By peers and seniors on the basis of complexion and
appearance
Gang activity and Comment passing
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7. Social Safety
Lack of Respect
For students by school staff and teachers
Threats
Students are threatened by teachers often - impacting
their mental and physical health
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8. SCHOOL SAFETY
51%
41%
38%
54%
Schools lack awareness of Government Guidelines &
Policies on Safety
Parents, Teachers & Students are unsatisfied with Safety
Measures adopted by Schools
Parents, Teachers & Students are not satisfied with the
existing Safety Policies
Schools lack clarity of their own school’s Safety Policy
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9. SCHOOL
SAFETY
59%
36%
37%
Schools lack parent Training and Sensitisation
Programmes
Schools lack any formal process to get Parental
Input
Schools lack teacher Training and Sensitisation Programmes
Training of Staff and Parental Involvement was the TOP MOST SUGGESTION given by all stakeholders
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10. Physical Safety
Bus Safety 26%
Schools run buses without Safety
Checks
23%
Don’t buses don’t have GPS facilities,
Male & Female help or conductors
40%
Don’t have Wi-Fi or Safe Drinking
water
Security
Guards
68%
Are not armed
81%
Allow visitors at all times, 61% don’t
wear ID cards
40%
Not equipped to deal with Robbery,
riots, man-made or natural disasters
Basic School
Facilities
18%
Don’t have CCTV cameras
17%
Don’t have Doctors, Nurses,
Counsellors or Special Educators
56%
Don’t have emergency exits, hosepipes,
metal detectors or an evacuation plan
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11. LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURAL SAFETY
46%
54%
43%
16%
72%
53%
46%
65%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Toilets
School ground
Children's play
Classroom
Canteen
Laboratory
School transport
Area outside school
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12. LACK OF BASIC Health and Hygiene
16.15% 17.18%
56.60%
69.20%
48.41%
68.51%
10.42% 13.89%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
Clean toilets Hand wash Sanitizer Toilet papers Sanitary
napkins
Hand towels Water purifiers
or clean
drinking water
Sufficient
number of
dustbins
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13. 93.31%
50.00%
22.00%
68.00%
72.69%
75.27%
73.78%
0.00% 20.00% 40.00% 60.00% 80.00% 100.00%
School ambulance
Sick room
First Aid tablets ( for fever, headache, stomach
pain, allergy, asthma etc.)
Medical equipment ( stethoscope, BP machine,
oxygen mask)
In house doctor
On call (part-time) doctor
Full time nurse
LACK OF BASIC Medical Facility
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14. Psychological Safety
•64% of parents stated that schools can’t handle mental health issues
•52% parents aren’t open to counselling
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15. Lack of Mental Health
20.00%
28.48%
18.40% 18.88%
34.27%
13.52%
Harmed in physical
fights
Teased, insulted
and abused
Threaten other
students & racial
comments
Forced by others do
other tasks
Personal property
being stolen
Sexual comments
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16. Social Safety
• 35% Never do a background check on staff (Teaching & Non-Teaching)
• 42% Students say their seniors are not friendly and approachable
• 30% Students stated that their teachers do not respect them
• 42% Students don’t feel comfortable talking to teachers about their problems
• 37% of Parents feel uncomfortable voicing their concerns to schools
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17. STATUS OF MEASURES TAKEN TILL DATE
56%
49%
67% 64%
46%
40%
33% 35%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Health &
wellness
committee
School safety
Committee
Sexual
harasment
committee
Physical abuse
committee
Personal
information of
parents
Student
medical record
Conduct
school safety
audits
Background
check of staff
at recruitment
Schools lack the following :
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18. LXL
Safe School
Framework
Easy to change
colors, photos
and Text.
Text
PHYS
Text
PHYSICAL
Safety
PSYCHOLOGICAL
Safety
SOCIO-EMOTIONAL
Safety
PARENTS
TEACHERS
PRINCIPALS
STUDENTS
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19. LXL Safe School Framework
• Health & Hygiene
• Infrastructural Facilities
(Medical, School transport, Security)
• Disaster Management
• Staff Recruitment & Training
• Mental Health
• Academic Pressure
• Emotional Health
(Bullying, Substance & Sexual
Abuse)
• School Culture
• School Climate
• Inclusion of Special
Needs
• Relationship Between
Stakeholders
Physical Safety Psychological Safety Socio-Emotional Safety
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20. Implemenation Process
Conduct a workshop on Safe
Schools with your teachers
Step
Create Teams
Step
Brainstorm
Step
Implementation strategy and
Planning
Step
01
02
03
04
Monitoring and
feedback
Step 05
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21. Physical Psychological &
Emotional
Social
Suggestive List
Safe infrastructural design
Emergency and Medical facilities
Safe School Transport
Proper Hygiene & Cleanliness
Strategic Security measures
Nutritious canteen food
Proper recording and auditing of
information
Specialised Professionals (Counsellors,
Special Educators)
Safety in school curricula
Sensitisation programs
Specialised and certified teacher trainings
Teaching of Life Skills
Anonymous reporting systems
Safe & supportive school climate
Safety Vison & Mission Statements
School-wide behavioural expectations
Positive Interventions & Prevention
programmes
School-community partnerships
For a school to be “SAFE” the following basic measures should be met
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22. Objectives of Safe School Research-
Phase 2
 To understand the viability of the LXL Safe School Frame work constructed
 To validate the LXL Safe School framework and make it more comprehensive
 To make implementable recommendations to implement LXL Safe School
framework and
 To strategise the scaleable and cost effective plan of implementing the LXL Safe
School Framework
Methodology:
Specially curated and designed online surveys, focussed interviews and focussed
group discussions.
Resources Required:
Internet facility, dedicated involvement of subjects (all stakeholders of the schools
i.e. students, teachers, principals and management committee members) and
readiness to participate for the cause
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23. Call For Action!
We at LXL Ideas are further exploring SAFE SCHOOLS with our
SAFE SCHOOL RESEARCH: PHASE 2
If you want to be a part to this project. Please fill your details here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/262893P
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24. Thank You
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