DepEd Order No. 40 s. 2012, also known as the DepEd Child Protection Policy, provides guidelines for protecting children in schools from abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination, bullying and other forms of harm. The policy gives special protection to children who are threatened or endangered by circumstances outside their control and assists rehabilitation agencies. It is grounded in the Philippine Constitution which mandates the state defend children's rights to protection from neglect, abuse, and conditions harmful to their development. The policy is also aligned with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Family Code which empower schools and teachers to exercise parental authority over children in their care.
DepEd Order No. 40 s. 2012, also known as the DepEd Child Protection Policy, provides guidelines for protecting children in schools from abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination, bullying and other forms of harm. The policy gives special protection to children who are threatened or endangered by circumstances outside their control and assists rehabilitation agencies. It is grounded in the Philippine Constitution which mandates the state defend children's rights to protection from neglect, abuse, and conditions harmful to their development. The policy is also aligned with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Family Code which empower schools and teachers to exercise parental authority over children in their care.
DepEd Order No. 40 s. 2012, also known as the DepEd Child Protection Policy, provides guidelines for protecting children in schools from abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination, bullying and other forms of harm. The policy gives special protection to children who are threatened or endangered by circumstances outside their control and assists rehabilitation agencies. It is grounded in the Philippine Constitution which mandates the state defend children's rights to protection from neglect, abuse, and conditions harmful to their development. The policy is also aligned with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Family Code which empower schools and teachers to exercise parental authority over children in their care.
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.