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Education is central to development and it is a fundamental building block for poverty reduction and human development which is essential for inclusive economic growth. However, if the primary objective of education is to be met, it is very important that students stay in school and remain safe to complete their educations. This requires that classrooms must be a safe place for learning and should not entertain the problem of school-related violence against students. It requires that everyone in the educational system must do what is sensible to keep pupils and teachers safe and healthy as practically as possible.

The Safe School Initiative is geared towards developing a framework that will reawaken the awareness and enthusiasm of every stakeholder within the educational sector towards taking proactive steps that will mitigate every risk exposure and crisis situations that comes with unsafe and unhealthy conditions and environment in our schools. The practical utility and benefit of this initiative is that it will make all concerned stakeholders to realise the risks that are unique to our educational institutions at the primary and secondary levels some of which are dependent on developments in the society (microcosm of society) and the risks faced by an educational establishment that are not different from those facing any other organization in the Nigerian society (educational institutions as an organization) so as to address the problem in line with global best practice.


The aim is to bring to proffer the means of dealing with the burning issue of how to manage the health and safety issues as regards schools in accordance to global best practice, with the objective of rekindling the awareness and interest of all stakeholders within the educational system in creating a safe and healthy school environment so as to maintain a positive and welcoming school climate that is free of accidents, crisis, hazards, violence, intimidation, and fear; an environment in which teachers can teach and students can learn.

You are therefore urged as a stakeholder: either as a member of a school management board; a school administrator; a teacher; a parent/guardian; a student; a school clinical officer; school psychologist; social worker; guidance counsellor; program officer; or even a family or friend outside the school community, to lend your voice and support to this initiative in order to encourage the safety and welfare of students and school staff, protect school property, and regulate the operation of the schools during a crisis, critical incident or medical emergency; prepare students and school staff to take appropriate actions in response to a natural, technological, or school specific hazards; and provide parents and community stakeholders with the policies, guidelines and procedures that schools will be utilizing during an emergency.

Your valuable post in terms of suggestions, constructive criticism and their like are welcomes on the post. Lend your Voice, Support a healthy and safer school

Well articulated Script, I will advice all University and colleges to learn from UNIVERSITY OF UYO they seem to have this gr8 attributes u'v talked about.

Thank you for the Busy Brain for the observation. You may as well pass on the message so that it gets to the right place and people. It is very important that we keep our schools safe for our children if we have to meet the primary objective of a school as a place of working and learning for staff and students respectively.