68,263 schoolchildren participated last year in one of the 3,087 educational courses and workshops given within the framework of the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of School Safety in Educational Centers and their environments. It is a plan coordinated by the High Inspection of Education of the Government Delegation in which the Government of Navarre participates, through the Department of Education and the Institute of Public and Labor Health, National Police, Civil Guard, Municipal Police of Pamplona and the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Delegation.
In Early Childhood and Primary Education, the 742 courses on Internet risks, in which more than 21,100 schoolchildren participated, stand out. More than 16,400 attended the 665 sessions organized on Road Education. And 256 courses on bullying were held with the participation of more than 4,100 students.
With regard to Secondary Education and Baccalaureate, 230 courses on Internet risks were taught with the assistance of more than 6,600 young people. There were 105 courses and workshops on gender equality and violence against women in which more than 6,000 students participated. And more than 2,700 attended some of the 99 sessions on drug addiction. Finally, 301 courses on harassment were held with more than 1,200 attendees. As a novelty, the training on gender equality and violence against women came to the Vocational Training centers during the last course.
For its part, the Coexistence Area of the Department of Education of the Government of Navarre has offered 35 different courses of Teacher Training, which have been attended by almost 9,700 teachers.
In addition, the Institute of Public and Labor Health has carried out various actions aimed at facilitating coordination with other structures of the Foral Community, promoting healthy lifestyles and including ludopathy prevention and ICT workshops aimed at professionals and families.
About the Master Plan
The Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of School Safety in Educational Centers and their environments was conceived in 2007 to respond in a coordinated and effective manner to issues related to student safety. It also arises as a response to the demand for training by the educational community itself on issues such as gender violence or road safety.
The programmed actions are offered each course to all educational centers in Navarre and they choose the ones that best fit their needs.
The balance of the course has been analyzed within the framework of the Coordination and Follow-up Commission of the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of School Safety in Educational Centers and its environments in which the High Inspection of Education of the Government Delegation, the Department of Education, the Institute of Public and Labor Health, National Police, Civil Guard, Foral Police, Municipal Police of Pamplona and the Coordination Unit against Violence on Women of the Government Delegation are represented.
The director of the High Inspection of Education in Navarre and coordinator of this working group, María Yolanda Salinas, points out that the Plan “allows us to offer educational centers and families training actions on different topics, so that the schools themselves can request those that are most interesting to them and that are complementary to the training provided in the classrooms.”