María Rivas, invites the ANPAS to join the activities of the Master Plan for Coexistence in the schools of the province.

In 2023, the number of relatives and guardians who participated in the activities was multiplied by two, and by three the number of members of the teaching staff. The new instruction includes a greater thematic offer that ranges from areas related to environmental protection, to the prevention of sexual crimes or trafficking in human beings.

The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, held today a meeting with the National Police with the objective of analyzing, together with the agents who intervene directly in the activities, how the new instruction is being implemented in relation to the actions derived from the Master Plan for the Improvement of Coexistence and Security in Educational Centers and their Environments.

In the meeting with the subdelegate, the Provincial Commissioner of A Coruña, Fernando Javier Martínez Marty, together with heads of the A Coruña, Ferrol-Narón, Ribeira and Santiago de Compostela police stations participated; Xosé Lois García Carballido, Director of the High Inspection Arena for Education and José Manuel Alfeiran Rodríguez, High Inspector of the Functional Area, also attended.

The subdelegate stressed that this new instruction allows the Mothers and Fathers’ Associations to request directly the activities included in the Master Plan, and she wanted to insist on calling for the participation of families, more actively it takes place, of this model of coexistence promoted by the Government through the activities developed by the State Security Forces.

In this sense, already in the data analyzed from the year 2023, a notable increase in the participation of relatives or legal guardians of the students can be seen. While in 2022 a total of 549 relatives and legal guardians participated in the activities, in the year 2023 the figure of 1,379 was already reached.

This new framework also extends the number of topics on which actions in schools can focus, ranging from areas related to environmental protection, to the prevention of sexual crimes or trafficking in human beings.

At the meeting, it was analyzed how the National Police is being strengthened, to give a better response to this expansion of topics, updating the training to the trainers who then impart the activities in the centers, and also, studying how to establish channels to reach new groups and new spaces. In this sense, some experience implemented through sports entities and clubs was valued as very positive.

Regarding other data on the evolution of the Master Plan, María Rivas, wanted to point out that there was also a threefold increase in the number of teachers who participated in the plan: 1,950 during the year 2023, when in the year 22 there were 602.

Therefore, in comparison with the previous year, it is worth highlighting the great increase in participation and in the development of activities of the Master Plan for Coexistence in schools, with respect to the year 2023, specialized agents of the National Police and Civil Guard, were in 359 schools in A Coruña, 68 more than in 2022. A total of 1,920 activities were carried out, 16 more than in the previous year.

As for the topics requested, there are 654 activities related to new technologies and cybersecurity, 541 with bullying, 148 with gender violence and 234 with drugs and alcohol. The total number of students who participated from the different educational centers of the province amounted to 38,180.

With these data, a total of 41,509 people participated during the year 2023 in the different activities programmed within the Master Plan in the province of A Coruña, which reflects the good reception and the good functioning of the Plan.

María Rivas wanted to value and thank the work developed by the agents who directly act in the schools, their involvement, and also invite them to continue with this joint work with the educational community in the search for spaces for improvement, and for the expansion of the people and entities participating in the Master Plan for the Improvement of Coexistence and Security in Educational Centers and their Environments.