The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has highlighted the “excellent reception” that the Autonomous Community has in the Master Plan for the coexistence and improvement of school safety in schools and their environments, which arrived last year to almost 30,000 students of schools and institutes.
Quiñones indicated this Tuesday after the meeting he held to analyze the results of the Plan in the 2022-2023 academic year and address the updating of the contents for this new course.
The meeting was attended by the director of the High Inspection Area of Education and coordinator of the Plan in the Government Delegation, María Magdalena González; the superior chief of police, Carmen Martínez; the commander of the Civil Guard César Vázquez; and the coordinators of the Plan Director in both bodies.
The representative of the State in the Autonomous Community has indicated that the Master Plan is coordinated by the Government Delegation and, through it, members of the National Police and the Civil Guard go to schools and institutes in Cantabria to give talks and activities to address or prevent different problems.
“Bullying, harassment, gender violence, drugs and alcohol, youth gangs, xenophobia, the use of social networks and security in them… are some of the topics that are addressed in these talks and that, year after year, we see that they are not only very useful in the education of our children and young people but are also very demanded by the centers and teachers,” said Quiñones.
“The Plan has an excellent reception in the educational community, and a very positive overall assessment, in large part because of the interest, effectiveness, professionalism, and in short, the good work of the personnel of the Security Forces in charge of materializing the activities.”
ALMOST 30,000 STUDENTS PARTICIPATED LAST YEAR
As an example of this, the Government delegate has detailed that in the last academic year 2022-2023 1,793 face-to-face sessions were held in schools and institutes of Cantabria with an attendance of 29,770 students.
Specifically, the State Security Forces and Corps held 473 meetings with the educational community, which had 987 attendees.
402 talks were given on bullying with 8,556 attendees; 202 on drugs and alcohol with 4,555 attendees; 14 on youth gangs with 352 participants; 573 on internet risks with 12,405 attendees; or 129 on gender violence with 2,915 students.
All these actions have duplicated those carried out in the previous course (2021-2022) in which 953 face-to-face sessions were taught, with an attendance of 20,834 students.
Quiñones recalled that the Master Plan for the coexistence and improvement of school security in schools and their environments was promoted by the Secretary of State for Security in 2007 and has been adapted over the years.
Specifically, for that academic year 2023-2024, he pointed out that “the Secretary of State for Security, attached to the Ministry of the Interior, has issued a new instruction to update the contents of the Plan taking into account the new risks that threaten the safety and freedom of children and adolescents”, placing even more emphasis on improving coexistence and preventing cases of bullying or improving children’s knowledge of the risk factors to which they may be exposed.