Child Friendly School Case Study

SCHOOL PROBLEM
STAGE 1 Assess
STEP 1 Get Organized

The CFS initiative in the Philippines is rooted in the provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Children (CRC) adopted in 1989 by the U.N. member countries, which include the Philippines. The initiative was first put into action in the Philippines in 1999 following the Fifth Country Programme for Children (CPC5) of the Philippine government, with support from UNICEF Philippines. In an effort to promote healthier classroom environments and increase retention rates, the Department of Education initiated the Child Friendly School System (CFSS) initiative. For nearly a two decade, it has been implemented throughout the country up to present.
A child-friendly school ensures every child

It ensures a healthy, hygienic, and safe learning environment, with adequate water and sanitation facilities and healthy classrooms, healthy policies and practices (e.g., a school free of drugs, corporal punishment, and harassment), the provision of health services such as nutritional supplementation and counselling, provides life skills-based health education, promotes both the physical and the psycho-socio-emotional health of teachers and learners , helps to defend and protect all children from abuse and harm and provides positive experiences for

2015 Policy in establishing standardized schools signage and reiteration of guidelines in revitalizing classroom structuring cum child-friendly school system (CFSS), in which stated to further strengthen the capacity of the schools to continuously provide a better learning environment, this Office embarked in implementing Policy in Establishing Standardized Schools’ Signages & Reiteration of Guidelines in Revitalizing Classroom Structuring cum Child-Friendly School System, as one of the mechanisms to strengthen School-Based Management geared towards accelerating access and quality education within the context of “A Child and Community-centered Education Systems (ACCESs) philosophy. In which most schools follow, To provide clear directions, these guidelines have references to Educational Facilities Manual 2010 (Revised Edition of the 2007 Handbook on Educational Facilities – Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction in School Construction) Chapter 4, G. Regular Classroom Facilities, No. 3 provided for the Classroom Structuring and in pursuance to the Child-Friendly School System and based on M&E Results of the region in the