School system essential in protecting children from abuse, Lagos government, UNFPA insist | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Lagos State government and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have said that the school system plays an essential role in protecting children from abuse.

They stated this at a capacity-building workshop for key stakeholders in school management organised by the state government in conjunction with UNFPA.Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Dr.

Aina, represented by a director in the ministry, Mr. Saka Abdulateef, stated that the school system plays an essential role in protecting children from abuse because they have regular contact with children. The permanent secretary said the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had been at the forefront of tackling Gender-Based Violence and prevention of child domestic/sexual abuse with the recent signing of the legislation transforming the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team into a full-blown agency.

Aina also stated that the ministry, in collaboration with UNFPA, had designed Comprehensive Sexuality Education into the curriculum of non-formal vocations and technical centres in the state, thereby providing a framework for the acquisition of knowledge of self and family living.The Co-ordinator of UNFPA South-West Zone, Dr.

On his part, Chairman, Parent-Teacher Association, Agidingbi Senior Secondary School, Mr. Rabiu Ahmed, appreciated the strategic collaboration between the ministry and UNFPA to tackle the menace, while Co-ordinator, Sexual/Gender-Based, Ministry of Health, Dr. Victoria Omoera, said that the prevalence of sexual/child abuse had become too prevalent to be ignored.

 

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