Protocol to Deal with Incidences of Corporal Punishment in Schools
National Department of Basic Education, South Africa
This document is designed to highlight the abolishment of corporal punishment in schools and to provide clear guidance to provinces, districts and schools on how to deal with issues of corporal punishment. The protocol aims to create a national framework to standardize the education sector’s response to corporal punishment and to facilitate implementation of the prohibition of corporal punishment throughout the education system and embed the positive behaviour Intervention Systems programmes – in order to empower all stakeholders to respond constructively towards learner ill-discipline.
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January 2022
This document is designed to highlight the abolishment of corporal punishment in schools and to provide clear guidance to provinces, districts and schools on how to deal with issues of corporal punishment. The protocol aims to create a national framework to standardize the education sector’s response to corporal punishment and to facilitate implementation of the prohibition of corporal punishment throughout the education system and embed the positive behaviour Intervention Systems programmes – in order to empower all stakeholders to respond constructively towards learner ill-discipline.
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