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Reducing violence in schools: A step-by-step guide for setting up a school safety system to reduce violence in schools
The purpose of this guide is to provide guidance on how to prevent, report and respond to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV).
Teaching online safety in school: guidance supporting schools to teach their pupils how to stay safe online, within new and existing school subjects
This guidance outlines how schools can ensure their pupils understand how to stay safe and behave online as part of existing curriculum requirements.
Prevention of and intervention in sexual harassments at schools and educational institutions: summary
This summary describes what sexual harassment means and how common it is.
Namibia’s National Safe Schools Framework
Namibia’s National Safe Schools Framework was developed jointly by the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture and UNICEF to strengthen the provision of healthy, supportive and conducive teaching and learning in light of a worrisome level of violence in Namibian schools.
Violence against adolescent girls: trends and lessons for East Africa; policy brief
This brief highlights research that examines the unique experience of adolescent girls by specifically exploring the types of gender-based violence and the drivers of this violence affecting this group within the context of South Sudan, where women and girls experience high levels of gender inequ
Taking the temperature: developing and piloting an LGBT-positive school climate evaluation tool for post-primary schools in Ireland
The project set out to develop and pilot a survey tool, which second-level schools can use to evaluate the positivity of their school climate and culture in relation to attitudes towards difference and diversity, with specific reference to LGBT identity.
LGBTQI inclusive education index: the indicators
An 8 page leaflet explaining the background of the creation of the LGBTQI Inclusive Education Index by IGLYO to support national governments and civil society organisations within the Council of Europe to ensure the right to education for all.
Q&A on campus sexual misconduct: schools’ responsibility to address sexual misconduct
Under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and its implementing regulations, an institution that receives federal funds must ensure that no student suffers a deprivation of her or his access to educational opportunities on the basis of sex.
The National School Safety Framework
The National School Safety Framework (NSSF) was developed in order to provide an all-inclusive strategy to guide the national department as well as the provincial education departments in a coordinated effort to address the violence occurring within schools.