Internships in itinerant children’s traffic parks, equality workshops, training sessions, actions of the Laguntza and Skolae plans, and risk prevention activities in school environments make up the offer of the new Master Plan for this 2024-25 course; an offer that has been expanded after the successful participation of the last course, which had 3,087 activities attended by 68,263 schoolchildren.
The delegate of the Government, Alicia Echeverría, visited today one of the sessions given by the National Police in the public school of Ermitagaña aimed at the prevention of violence. She has been accompanied by the director of the High Inspection of Education in Navarre, María Yolanda Salinas, by the delegate of Citizen Participation of the National Police in the Foral Community, the inspector Imelda Rey, and by the director of the center, Félix Ramón.
In this new edition of the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of School Safety in Navarre, several main lines of action have been proposed: school harassment, youth gangs, gender violence, use of the Internet and new technologies, filio-parental violence and abuse in the family environment towards childhood and adolescence, trafficking and exploitation of human beings, prevention of sexual crimes, speech and hate crime, road safety, and drugs and alcohol.
It includes issues such as addressing the consumption of hypnosedatives and wapers, hate crimes, safety in the use of scooters, harmful effects of access to pornography, cybersecurity and gambling. Thus, during this course, training actions are offered with titles such as “That is not love”, “Micromachismos, the violence you do not see”, “Your children see porn”, “Discrimination and hate crimes”, “Consumption of substances and addictions”, “Protection of the environment” or “Introduction to traffic regulations”.
The Plan, coordinated by the Directorate of the High Inspection of Education in Navarre, includes actions of the Ministry of the Interior, Department of Education, National Police, Foral Police, Municipal Police of Pamplona, Civil Guard, Institute of Public and Labor Health and Unit of Coordination against Violence against Women.
Since the High Inspection of Education, this plan has been sent to all schools in the Foral Community, accompanied by a letter from the Government delegate inviting them to participate in the actions offered, including school competitions, talks for teachers and students and training activities.
The objectives include bringing public security services closer to the educational community, providing technical assistance to prevent and address conflicts of coexistence, and helping to improve all types of security problems that affect young people.
About the Master Plan
The Master Plan for the Coexistence and Improvement of School Safety originated in 2006, when the Ministries of Interior and Education and Science signed the 'Framework Agreement on Education for the Improvement of Safety'.
During the past year, 3,087 educational courses and workshops were organized in Navarre, in which 68,263 students participated.
Specifically, in Early Childhood and Primary Education, there were 742 courses on Internet risks, in which more than 21,100 schoolchildren participated. 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 any of the 99 sessions on drug addiction. Finally, 301 courses on harassment were held with more than 1,200 attendees.