Pontevedra, March 15, 2023.- The subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, Maica Larriba, highlighted today that the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of School Safety in the educational centers of the province is reaching the best figures of participation in this start of the course. Thus, during the first quarter of the academic year 2022-2023, 12,898 members of the educational community (students, teachers, parents) of the province participated in the training and preventive activities led by the Civil Guard and the National Police, which represents an increase of 56.5% with respect to the last academic year.
The subdelegate celebrated the total recovery of normality after the pandemic with 387 training actions given (15% more) in 275 schools in Pontevedra, compared to the 178 that participated in the first quarter of last year. The talks given by the specialized teams of the National Police and the Civil Guard focused on cybersecurity, addictions, gender violence, or school harassment, among other topics. “I would like to acknowledge the efforts of the educational community of the province and the work of the security forces for their commitment to the training in security of students, teachers and parents,” said Maica Larriba at the meeting of the Provincial Commission for Follow-up of the Master Plan held this morning in the Government Subdelegation.
Larriba indicated that the topics of the talks are increasingly focused on the one that has to do with social networks, so he described as “indispensable” to pay special attention to these crimes, “especially when we are talking about minors”. He also stressed that “prevention from education is fundamental to avoid bullying, cyber-bulling, male violence… that is why the Master Plan talks have such an important role, acting from the schools themselves, where so often, after these talks, different situations of risk for students are detected”.
The subdelegate finally appealed to “continue working in this line, involving the entire educational community and promoting awareness and awareness in all these topics; adapting the different talks to the most worrying topics in the centers and adapting all the contents to the ages of the schoolchildren, so that the whole community feels part of this project as a solution”.
In addition to the subdelegate of the Government in Pontevedra, the director of the High Inspection of Education in Galicia, Manuel Regueiro, the head of the Unit against Violence against Women of the Subdelegation of the Government in Pontevedra, Manuela Vilaboy, the territorial head of Education of the Xunta de Galicia in Pontevedra, César Pérez, and the inspector of Education of the Xunta de Galicia and responsible for the Master Plan in Pontevedra, José María as Members of the National Corps.