Child Protection Policy

Department of Education
DepEd Order no. 40 series of 2012

Evelyn I. Cielo
Secondary School Teacher I
Emotional Abuse Physical abuse
The Department of
Education Policy on
Child Protection
Under DEPEd Order no. 40 s. 2012
 MANDATE
Art. XV. Sec. 3 (b). 1987
Philippines Constitution Article XIV, Section 3,(b)
• “The state shall defend the • All educational institution
right of children to shall inculcate patriotism
assistance, including proper and nationalism, foster love
care and nutrition, and of humanity respect for
special protection from all human rights..”
forms of neglect, abuse,
cruelty, exploitation and
other conditions prejudicial
to their development.
 MANDATE
The Convention on the Rights
of the Child (CRC)
• Aims to protect children from all forms of
physical or mental violence,injury, and
abuse neglect or negligent
treatment,maltreatment and exploitation
including sexual abuse,it is also establishes
the right of the child to education,and with
a view to achieving this right,it obliges the
government to take measures to encourage
regular attendance in school and reduce
drop-out rates.it is mandated that all
appropriate measures be undertaken to
ensure that school discipline is administered
in a manner consistent with the child’s
human dignity.
The Department of Education (DepEd) in
collaboration with its partners and
Stakeholders
Ensure that all schools are conducive
to the education of children.The best
interest of the child shall be the
paramount consideration in all
decisions and actions involving
children.
Teachers and learning Facilitator
especially in learning centers are
their substitute parents,and
expected to discharge their functions
and duties with this in mind.
 KEEP IN MIND

• The Family code empowers the The Department reiterates a

school,its administrators,and zero tolerance policy for any
teachers, or the individual, act of child
entity or institution engaged abuse,exploitation,violence,di
in child care to exercise the
scrimination, bullying and
special parental authority and
other forms of abuse.
responsibility over the child,
while under their supervision,
instruction or custody.
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

Child Child Protection

• Refers to any person below Refers to
eighteen (18) years of age or programs,services,procedure
those over but are unable to s,and structures that are
fully take care of themselvesor intended to prevent and
protect themselves from
respond to
abuse,neglect,cruelty.for
DEPED the term also includes
abuse,neglect,exploitation,di
pupils or students who may be scrimination,and violence.
eighteen of age or older but
are in school.
 Definition of Terms

Child Abuse Child Exploitation

• Refers to the maltreatment
of a child whether habitual
or not.
Refers to the use of children
for someone elses
advantage.gratification or
profit often resulting in an
unjust, cruel and harmful
treatment of the child.
 Violence against Children Committed in
Schools
Physical Violence
• Refers to acts that inflict
bodily or physical harm.it
includes assigning children
to perform tasks which are
hazardous to their physical
well- being
Sexual Violence
Refers to acts that are sexual in
nature, it includes, but is not
limited to :rape,sexual
harassment, act of
lasciviousness, forcing the child
to watch obscene publications
and indecent
shows,attempting to cause the
child to engage in any sexual
activity by force.
 Violence against Children Committed in
Schools
Psychological Violence
• Refers to acts or omissions
causing or likely to cause mental
or emotional suffering of the
child,intimidation,harassment,st
alking,damage to
property,public ridicule or
humiliation,deduction or threat
of deduction from grade or
merit as a form of punishment
and repeated verbal abuse.
Corporal Punishment
Refers to a kind of punishment or
penalty imposed for an alleged
or actual offense,which is
carried out or inflicted for the
purpose of discipline,training or
control by a teacher,school
administrator, an adult or any
other child who has given or
has assumed authority or
responsibility for punishment.
 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

• Beating Striking of a child’s face or

• Kicking head “NO CONTACT ZONE”
• Hitting Pulling hair
• Slapping
Shaking
• Lashing
Twisting joint
• With or without the use of
instrument like Cutting or piercing skin
cane,broom,stick,whip or belt
 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
• Dragging
• Pushing or throwing of a child
• Forcing a child to perform
physically painful or damaging
acts like holding a
weight,kneeling on stones,salt,
pebbles,or other objects
• Deprivation of a child’s physical
needs as a form of punishment
Deliberate exposure to fire,ice,
water, smoke,
sunlight,rain,pepper, alcohol,or
forcing a child to swallow
substances
Tying up a child
Confinement, imprisonment or
depriving the liberty of a child
 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

• Verbal abuse or assaults like Permanent confiscation of

intimidation or threat of bodily
personal property of pupils
harm, swearing or
cursing,ridiculing or denigrating except when such pieces of
the child. property pose a danger to
• Forcing a child to wear a sign, to
the child or to others
undress or disrobe or to put on
anything that will make a child
Other analogous acts
look or feel foolish which humiliates
the child in front of others.
“FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION”
 BULLYING
President Aquino signed last Republic Act 10627 or
the “Anti-Bullying Act of 2013” last Sept. 6, Bullying (DepEd Order no. 40
requiring all elementary and secondary schools to
adopt policies to prevent and address bullying in
s. 2012)
their institutions.
Is committed when a student
The law defines bullying as any severe or repeated
use by one or more students of a written, verbal commits an act or a series
or electronic expression, or a physical act or of single acts directed
gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at
another student that has the effect of actually towards another student in
causing or placing the latter in reasonable fear
of physical or emotional harm or damage to his a school setting or a place of
property; creating a hostile environment at learning which results in
school for the other students. The act of bullying
also involves infringing on the rights of other physical and mental abuse,
students at school or materially and
substantially disrupting the education process or harassment, intimidation or
the orderly preparation of a school. humiliation
 Bullying

Threats to inflict a wrong upon Public humiliation, or public and

a person, honor, or property malicious imputation of a crime
or of a vice or defects whether
of the person or on his or her
real or imaginary
family
Deliberate destruction or damage
Stalking or constantly following to the child’s property
or pursuing a person in his or
her daily activities with Physical Violence committed upon
unwanted and obsessive a student such as
attention mauling,hitting,punching,kicking,
throwing things at the student
Taking of property pinching, spanking.
 Bullying
Demanding or requiring sexual
or monetary favors or
exacting money or property
from a pupil or student
Restraining the liberty and
freedom of a pupil or
student
Cyber- bullying
Is any conduct defined in the
preceding paragraph as
resulting in
harassment,intimidation, or
humiliation, through
electronic means or other
technology such as
texting,email,instant
messaging,chatting, internet,
social networking websites
 CHILD PROTECTION COMMITTEE
COMPOSITION

Chairperson: School Head

Vice Chairperson: Guidance Counselor
Representative of the teachers as designated by the faculty club
Representative of the parents as designated by the PTA
Representative of the students as designated by the SSG
Representative from the community as designated by the
Punong Barangay
 WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE VIOLATE
THIS DEPED ORDER no.40 s. 2012

Teachers/School Authorities Students

• There is a procedures in
handling child abuse first if
that is being reported it will
undergo Fact Finding
Investigation.
Note: the identity of a
respondent teacher shall be
kept confidential
It is the Child Protection
Committee to decide in any
abuses by students to
another. Like suspension or
expulsion depending on the
ground of offense.
In Summary if our school is
ZERO case of child abuse then it
is considered a Child Friendly
School
and DROP OUT rate is lessen/reduce
Thank You So Much
For listening!!!