76,708 schoolchildren participated during the past year in the activities offered within the Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of School Safety in Educational Centers and their environments that coordinates the area of the High Inspection of Education of the Government Delegation in Navarra. It is 12 percent more than in 2023, when 68,263 schoolchildren participated, according to data from the annual report prepared by this agency. To these figures should be added the training aimed at teachers, through the Skolae and Laguntza programs, carried out by the Department of Education.
These are data provided today by the Government delegate in Navarre, Alicia Echeverría, and the director of the High Inspection of Education in Navarre and coordinator of the Plan, María Yolanda Salinas, who have presented the report corresponding to the year 2024.
The increase in demand for these activities by schools has in turn been accompanied by an increase in the training offer, which for this 2024/25 academic year has included among other novelties self-protection training for natural disasters by Civil Protection volunteers.
The delegate of the Government, Alicia Echeverría, has pointed out that this is a plan “alive, dynamic, always open to the realities that may arise and sensitive to the different social concerns”. And he assured that it is “a particularly useful tool to train generations of citizens better prepared to face all kinds of situations and more civic; at the same time it helps us to prevent negative behaviors and violent attitudes, and to foster a climate of respect and coexistence.”
For her part, the director of the High Inspection of Education in Navarre, María Yolanda Salinas, said that this 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 given in the classrooms.”
The Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of School Safety in Educational Centers is made up of training activities given by various institutions such as the Coexistence Service of the Department of Education, police forces (National Police, Civil Guard, Foral Police and Municipal Police of Pamplona), the Institute of Public Health and Labor of Navarra, the Coordination Unit against Violence on Women of the Government Delegation and, from this course, also by volunteering for Civil Protection.
The Master Plan has several lines of action such as bullying, youth gangs, gender violence, internet use 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, drugs and alcohol.
Its actions also 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 kinds of security problems that affect young people.
Among the most demanded actions are the prevention of risks on the Internet and addiction to screens, addressing problems that contemplate a wide spectrum of violence in the digital environment. Afftive-sexual education was also widely requested by the centers, with the aim of building healthy relationships and identifying micromachisms. The most demanded workshops were the so-called “That’s not love” for schoolchildren or “Your children watch porn” for apymas, about the effects produced by early exposure to online pornography.
The prevention of foot and mouth disease has also been addressed in several conferences and workshops carried out by the Institute of Public and Labor Health, which has carried out actions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles.
In addition, training related to education and road safety was provided, for which internships were held in itinerant children ' s traffic parks organized by the Municipal Police.
The new activities that will be taught by Civil Protection personnel will soon begin under the titles “Earthquakes: when the ground trembles, I act”, “Fires: with fire is not played” and “With water around the neck” as a pilot project with activities of self-protection against natural disasters aimed at children of 5th and 6th Primary and adolescents of ESO and Basic VET. The contents will address patterns of action before, during and after a natural disaster occurs.
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.
The programmed actions are offered each course to all educational centers in Navarre and they choose the ones that best fit their needs. The Plan can be consulted through the website of the Government Delegation in Navarre: /content/mpt/en/portal/government/delegations/navarre/projects-ci/Plan-Director-para-la-Convivencia-y-Mejora-de-la-Seguridad-Escolar.html.