The Master Plan for the Coexistence and Improvement of Security in Educational Centers and their Environments is 15 years old in Galicia reaching the best figures of participation in the start of an academic course. This was confirmed today by the subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, at the meeting of the regional commission that took stock of the management of this program in the first quarter of the 2022-2023 academic year in Galicia and that was held this morning in the Government Delegation.
María Rivas stressed that this operational program, which is developed in coordination with the Xunta and the Fegamp, has managed “to ensure that security has been incorporated as one more subject to the integral training that is provided in Galician educational centers”. A reality that is confirmed with the figures obtained in the first quarter of this course, in which 35,000 members of the educational community of Galicia have participated in the activities led by the Civil Guard and National Police teams. These figures represent an increase of 45% compared to last year.
María Rivas has detailed in these first months of this course, the master plan has carried out 1,250 talks and formations in 638 educational centers throughout Galicia: “In this first quarter, one in two educational centers in Galicia formalized applications for preventive training by the National Police and Civil Guard.”
Evolution in the requested topics
Regarding the topics requested, the Government’s deputy delegate stressed that they serve to know “what are the concerns of such an important group as education in reference to citizen security.” In this first quarter, a greater diversification of requests has been detected and, for the first time in recent years, activities related to new technologies have decreased. Although it remains the most relevant topic, the requests have decreased by almost 30%, with 461 activities “far from the almost 600 talks on cybersecurity that took place in the same period of the previous year,” said María Rivas.
On the contrary, there has been an increase in training activities against bullying, which led to more than 300 training activities, 15% more than in the first quarter of last year. Awareness-raising activities to prevent and act against gender-based violence have also increased by 10 per cent.
Follow-up Commission
In addition to the subdelegate of the Government, the head of the High Educational Inspection Area of the Government Delegation, Manuel Regueiro, also the coordinator of the State Pact against Gender Violence in Galicia and those responsible for the units of violence against women in the four Galician provinces, members of the National Police Force and Civil Guard; Educational Inspection of the Government and the Xunta de Galicia and representatives of the FEGAMP participated in the Autonomous Commission of the Master Plan.