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Brief Explanation, Procedures of DepEd Order No.

40
s. 2012

DepEd Order No. 40 s. 2012 or known as DepEd


Child Protection Policy is the policy guidelins on
protecting children in school from abuse, violence,
exploitation, discrimination, bullying and other forms
of abuse. This policy will provide special protection to
school children who are gravely threatened or
endangered by circumstances which afect their
normal development and over which they have no
control, and to assist the concern agencies in their
rehabilitation.
DepEd Order No. 40 s. 2012 is anchored on the
1987 Philippine Constitution (Article XV Sec. 3 (2))
which states: the state shall defend the right of the
children to assistance including proper care and
nutrition and special protection from all forms of
neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation and other
conditions prejudicial to their development. It is also
anchored in the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC) and the Family Code that empowers the school,
its administrators and teachers or any individual or
institution engaged in the child care to exercise the
special parental authority and responsibility over the
child, while under their supervision, instruction or
custody.

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