LAHORE
Chairperson Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB) Punjab Sarah Ahmad has sent a letter to secretary school education for establishment of Child Protection Committees (CPCs) in all the government schools in Punjab besides making the education for protection of children part of syllabus.
Proposal has been given for creating comprehensive awareness for safety of children in government schools and introducing safety system in all government schools under Chief Minister (CM) Punjab vision.
Sarah Ahmad has proposed that CPCs comprising students, teachers and parents be set up in the schools. These committees will ensure awareness about children rights, identification of safety related problems and timely reporting to respective institutions.
According to Chairperson Sarah Ahmad awareness about good touch, bad touch and self protection be made part of school syllabus to provide secure environment to children.
The children be educated in connection with physical safety, personal limitations, identification of improper attitudes and informing trusted elders timely for providing secure environment to children.
Recommendation has been made in the letter for including Digital Safety Education in the syllabus so that the children could be kept secure from cyber bullying, online harassment, online grooming and digital exploitation.
She said that creating awareness about safe and responsible use of social media, online privacy and digital foot prints is need of hour.
