Pies Child Protection 2023

Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BATANGAS
PAYAPA IBABA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PAYAPA IBABA, LEMERY, BATANGAS
SCHOOL- BASED
CHILD
PROTECTION
POLICY
Payapa Ibaba, Lemery, Batangas

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DepEd Tayo Payapa Ibaba ES- Batangas
I. INTRODUCTION
PAYAPA IBABA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL firmly believes in

promoting all facets of students' growth and learning as well as ensuring
their safety. The welfare of each student is a duty that this school takes very
seriously. The school also holds the view that social and emotional learning
lay the groundwork for all academic learning. A variety of antisocial,
disruptive, excessively compliant, or withdrawing behaviors may result from
their frustrations.
The Department of Education (DepEd), in a timely manner
collaboration with instructors, members of civil society organizations
representatives of public and private schools, international organizations,
and other child protection activists created the historic Guidelines and
Policies for Child Protection to help with reference to issues of child abuse in
public and private schools and protection from exploitation and violence
based on DepEd Order No. 40, series of 2012.
Both education and rights are going through a refining process. It

is essential to others’ improvement that anyone in the educational system
contributes to the protection and sound and in identifying welfare issues,
and signs of probable early instances of abuse or neglect.
II. OBJECTIVES
Payapa Ibaba Elementary School guarantees protection for all
children from harmful physical or emotional abuse. Each kid possesses the
right to a protected and secure learning environment.
The policy was adopted by the school's child protection committee
to zero tolerance for any act of child abuse is observed and encouraged,
bullying, exploitation, assault, and various other types of
bullying at school It specifically seeks to:
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 In accordance with the constitution, shield every child from cruel

treatment, whether it be physical or emotional.
 Maintain each child's entitlement to a secure learning environment.
 Adopt a policy of "zero tolerance" for any sort of abuse in schools,
including bullying, sexual exploitation of children, violence, and
prejudice.
 Instruct the school's stakeholders to increase awareness of education
to recognize and stop all abuse.
 Increasing the connections between the community and the school
setting that is nurturing and safeguarding for children.
 Training and Seminars for Parents and Teachers that focus on
capacity building to improve students' social and emotional skills.
III. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The school-based Child Protection Policy shall apply to:
A. School Head - The school head has the following duties and
responsibilities:
 Ensuring that effective child protection guidelines are in place,

processes, and compliance monitoring.
 Ensure that the institution implements a child protection

policy.
 Ensure that all pupils, faculty, guardians, staff also visitors,

and guests are informed that a school is implementing child
policy protection.
 Keep a log of all interactions involving bullying or peer abuse

and report to the District Office have a copy of the intake form
and the report at the end of each academic year.

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B. School Personnel
 Establish the value of respect and humility.
 Ensure the utilization of constructive and non-violent

discipline. There shall be no instances of students receiving
corporal punishment.
 The school's policies must be carefully followed by all students

and staff based on child protection.
C. PUPILS
Comply with the school’s rules and regulations. They shall refrain.
from:
 Bullying and humiliating others.
 Deal with drugs and alcohol
 Fight with others
 Sexual involvement and harassment
 Using bad words
D. SCHOOL VISITORS AND GUEST
 Visitors may not interrupt classes in session or coordinate with

a teacher ahead of time to observe.
 Visitors will be subject to security screening (if available)
 Visitors will not take part in nor encourage any illegal

activities.
IV. SCOPE OF THE POLICY
The school-based Child Protection Policy shall apply to:

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1. SCHOOL PERSONNEL – means the person singly or collectively, working in

Talisay Elementary School. They are classified as follows:
A. SCHOOL HEAD
B. OTHER SCHOOL OFFICIALS – include other school officers,
including teachers, who occupy supervisory positions of responsibility
and are involved in policy formulation or implementation in a school.
C. OTHER PERSONNEL – includes all other non-academic personnel in

the school whatever may be their appointment and status of
employment. (Security Guard, Utility and Canteen Helper)
2. CHILDREN IN SCHOOL – refers to bonafide pupils, students, or learners

who are enrolled in the basic education system whether regular, irregular,
transferee, or repeater, including those who have been temporarily out of
school, who are in the school or learning centers premises or participating in
sanctioned activities.
3. SCHOOL VISITOR OR GUESTS – refers to any person who visits the school
and has any official business with the school, and any person who does not
have any official business but is found within the premises of the school.
This may include those who and within the school premises for certain
reasons, e.g., student teachers, catechists, service providers, suppliers,
bidders, parents, and guardians of the children.
V. DEFINITION OF TERMS AND TYPE OF ABUSE
1. Child Abuse- refers to the maltreatment of a child, whether habitual or not,

which includes any of the following:
 psychological or physical abuse, neglect, cruelty, sexual abuse,
and emotional maltreatment.
 any act by deeds or words which debases, degrades, or demeans
the intrinsic worth and dignity of a child as a human being.
 unreasonable deprivation of the child's basic needs for survival,
such as food and shelter; or
 failure to immediately give medical treatment to an injured child
resulting in serious impairment of his or her growth and
development or in the child's permanent incapacity or death.

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2. Discrimination against children - refers to an act of exclusion, distinction,

restriction, or preference which is based on any ground such as age,
ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, language, religion,
political or another opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, being a
child in conflict with the law, being a child with a disability or other status
or condition, and which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing
the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by all persons, on an equal footing, of
all rights and freedom.
3. Violence against children committed in schools - refers to a single act or

a series of acts committed by school administrators, academic and
nonacademic personnel against a child, which result in or is likely to result
in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or other abuses
including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment, or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
It includes, but is not limited to, the following acts:
A. Physical violence refers to acts that inflict bodily or physical harm. It

includes assigning children to perform tasks that are hazardous to
their physical well-being.
B. Sexual violence refers to acts that are sexual in nature. It includes,

but is not limited to rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness,
making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks, physically
attacking the sexual parts of the victim's body; a. forcing the child to
watch obscene publications and indecent shows or forcing the child
to do indecent sexual acts and/or to engage or be involved in, the
creation or distribution of such films, indecent publication or
material; and b. acts causing or attempting to cause the child to
engage in any sexual activity by force, threat of force, physical or
other harm or threat of physical or other harm or coercion, or
through inducements, gifts, or favors.
C. Psychological violence refers to acts or omissions causing or likely

to cause mental or emotional suffering of the child, such as but not
limited to intimidation, harassment, stalking, damage to property,
public ridicule or humiliation, deduction, or threat of deduction from
grade or merit as a form of punishment, and repeated verbal abuse.
Other acts of violence of a physical, sexual, or psychological nature that

are prejudicial to the best interest of the child.

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4. Bullying - refers to any severe or repeated use by oschool,ore students of a

written, verbal or electronic expression, or a physical act or gesture, or any
combination thereof, directed at another student that has the effect of
actually causing or placing the latter in reasonable fear of physical or
emotional harm or damage to his property; creating a hostile environment at
school for the other student; infringing on the rights of the other student at
school; or materially and substantially disrupting the education process or
the orderly operation of a school; such as, but not limited to, the following:
a. Any unwanted physical contact between the bully and the victim
like punching, pushing, shoving, kicking, slapping, tickling,
headlocks, inflicting school pranks, teasing, fighting, and the use
of available objects as weapons.
b. Any act that causes damage to a victim’s emotional well-being.
c. Any slanderous statement or accusation that causes the victim.
undue emotional distress like directing foul language or profanity at

the target, name-calling, tormenting, and commenting negatively on
the victim’s looks, clothes, and body; and
d. Threats to inflict a wrong upon a person, honor, or property of the

person or on his/ her family.
e. Stalking or constantly following or pursuing a person in his/ her

daily activities, with unwanted and obsessive attention.
f. Taking of property.
g. Public humiliation, or public malicious imputation of a crime or of

a vice or of a defect, whether real or imaginary, or any act,
omission, condition, status, or circumstance tending to cause
dishonor, discredit or expose a person to contempt.
h. Deliberate destruction or defacement of, or damage to the child’s

property.
i. Demanding or requiring sexual or monetary favors, or exacting
money or property, from a pupil or student.
j. Restraining the liberty and freedom of a student; and

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k. Cyberbullying is any conduct defined in the preceding.
paragraph as resulting in harassment, intimidation, or

humiliation, through electronic means or other technology, such
as, but not limited to texting, email, instant messaging, chatting,
internet, social networking websites, or other platforms or
formats.
Other acts of abuse by a pupil, student or learner"- refers to other

serious acts of abuse committed by a pupil, student or learner upon another
pupil, student or learner of the same school, not falling under the definition of
`bullying' in the preceding provisions, including but not limited to acts of a
physical, sexual or psychological nature.
5. Corporal Punishment - refers to a kind of punishment or penalty imposed

for an alleged or actual offense, which is carried out or inflicted, for the
purpose of discipline, training, or control, by a teacher, school
administrator, an adult, or any other child who has been given or has
assumed authority or responsibility for punishment or discipline. It includes
physical, humiliating, or degrading punishment, including, but not limited
to the following:
A. Blows such as, but not limited to, beating, kicking, hitting, slapping,
or lashing, of any part of a child's body, with or without the use of an
instrument such as, but not limited to a cane, broom, stick, whip or
belt.
B. Striking of a child's face or head, such being declared as a "no contact

zone”.
C. Pulling hair, shaking, twisting joints, cutting, or piercing skin,
dragging, pushing, or throwing a child.
D. Forcing a child to perform physically painful or damaging acts such

as, but not limited to, holding a weight or weights for an extended
period and kneeling on stones, salt, pebbles, or other objects.
E. Deprivation of a child's physical needs as a form of punishment.
F. Deliberate exposure to fire, ice, water, smoke, sunlight, rain, pepper,

alcohol, or forcing the child to swallow substances, dangerous
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chemicals, and other materials that can cause discomfort or threaten

the child's health, safety and sense of security such as, but not
limited to bleach or insecticides, excrement or urine.
G. Tying up a child.
H. Confinement, imprisonment or depriving the liberty of a child.
I. Verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily

harm, swearing or cursing, ridiculing, or denigrating the child.
J. Forcing a child to wear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or to put on

anything that will make a child look or feel foolish, which belittles or
humiliates the child in front of others.
K. Permanent confiscation of personal property of pupils, students, or

learners, except when such pieces of property pose a danger to the
child or to others; and
L. Another analogous act.
VI. CODE OF CONDUCT
A. CODE OF CONDUCT FOR TEACHERS
Teacher should:
1. Treat all students equally, with respect and dignity.
2. Be approachable.
3. Exhibit long patience in dealing with pupils.
4. Put the care, welfare, and safety needs of a pupil first.
5. Observe appropriate attire (including the wearing of school ID) and

behaviors in interacting with pupils.
6. Listen attentively and respectfully to the pupil’s ideas and views.
7. Respond sensitively to pupils’ concerns.

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8. Report to the Child Protection Committee any disclosures of abuse

from the child, or any observations of the child being exposed to a
potentially abusive situation, harm, exploitation, or neglect, or
witness a child in distress.
Teachers NOT should:
1. Have private or unobserved situations with pupils including

unnecessary one on one time with a pupil unless not applicable
(such as in guidance counseling sessions).
2. Leave children frequently unattended inside their classroom.
3. Gossip about pupils which will put children at risk and not be
sensitive to children’s right to privacy.
4. Have pupils do errands outside of school.
5. Direct any personal anger towards pupils.
6. Have pupils do errands to pass a subject.
7. Behave in a manner that may be abusive or put children at risk

(e.g., verbal bullying, letting children watch inappropriate movies
for their age, ignoring illness complaints, etc.)
8. Engage pupils in sexually provocative acts, including but not

limited to horseplay, flirting, inappropriate touching, acting in a
sexually aggressive manner, making sexual innuendoes, and
telling jokes with sexual undertones.
9. Use green jokes or jokes with double meanings in class.
10.Drink or smoke in front of pupils, nor invite pupils to drink

alcohol with them.
11.Develop a relationship with pupils which could be exploitative or

abusive or going out with the pupil after class.
12.Inflict corporal punishment for the purpose of discipline as well as

other prohibited acts stated in DepEd order no. 40, Series of 2012.

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B. CODE OF CONDUCT FOR NON-TEACHING PERSONNEL
Non-Teaching Personnel (Guards, Canteen Helper) should:
1. Guard
a. Guide the children in going in and out of the school

campus.
b. Secure that the gate is closed during class hours.
c. Report to the adviser the observed wrongdoings of a child

that may cause harm to himself (e.g., getting out over the
fence).
d. Keep a record of visitors coming to school and incidents

happening.
2. Canteen Helper
a. Secure that the food being prepared and sold are hot and
nutritious.
b. Maintain cleanliness in oneself and in the work area.
c. Serve pupils in a cordial manner.
d. Give the exact change.
e. Avoid humiliating pupils caught stealing, instead report the

matter to the canteen teacher.
C. CONDUCT OF CONDUCT OF SCHOOL VISITORS
Visitors should:
1. As much as possible, transact first with the principal’s

office/Officer of the Day in order to clarify the purpose of the
visit.

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2. Should follow all school regulations including the proper dress

code.
3. Abide by the Child Protection Policy of the School.
4. Respect the person in authority.
Visitors NOT should:
1. Talk to students without the supervision of the School

Personnel.
2. Smoke, drink, or come in drunk to the school.
3. Swear, use foul or offensive language, and physically harm

students.
4. Disturb ongoing classes as well as other prohibited acts stated

in DepEd order no. 40, Series of 2012
D. CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PUPILS
Pupils should:
1. Exhibit mutual respect for teachers and other visitors.
2. Exhibit equal treatment to all teachers.
3. Go to trusted school personnel if they are feeling unsafe, or

unsure about a school experience brought about by a
classmate, a teacher, a non-teaching personnel, or a school
visitor.
4. Use appropriate language and behavior towards

students/pupils.
5. Develop a healthy teacher-student relationship based on

respect and trust.
6. Should say “NO” if someone is making them feel unsafe.
Pupils NOT should:
1. Engaging in fights or any aggressive behavior.

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2. Participating in any behavior of other pupils that is illegal,

unsafe, or abusive.
3. Engaging in discrimination or leading a group of pupils to

discriminate against another with reference to one’s physical
appearance, weaknesses, or status of any sort.
4. Introducing into school premises or otherwise possessing

prohibited articles such as deadly- weapons, drugs, alcohol,
toxic and noxious substances, cigarettes, and pornographic
materials.
5. Swearing and using offensive language towards school

personnel, including giving offensive nicknames to students
and school personnel in any form such as text messaging,
social media and others.
6. Engaging in sexually provocative acts, including but not

limited to horseplay, flirting, inappropriate touching, acting in
a sexually aggressive manner, making sexual innuendoes, and
telling jokes with sexual undertones nor bringing or watching
pornographic materials in school.
7. Use mobile phones inside classrooms as well as other

prohibited acts stated in DepEd order no. 40, Series of 2012.
VII. PROHIBITED ACTS
The policy guidelines have listed down the specific acts that constitute child
abuse and violence that the school can use as a guide in addressing this silent but
very real social problem:
1. Child abuse

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“Child Abuse” - refers to the maltreatment of a child, whether habitual

or not.
2. Discrimination against children
“Discrimination against children” - refers to an act of exclusion,

distinction, restriction, or preference which is based on any ground such
as age, ethnicity, sex, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, language,
religion, political or another opinion, national or social origin, property,
birth, health condition, and disability.
3. Child Exploitation
“Child Exploitation” - refers to the use of children for someone

else’s advantage, gratification, or profit often resulting in an unjust,
cruel, and harmful treatment of the child.
4. Violence Against Children in School
“Violence against children committed in schools” - refers to a single

act or a series of acts committed by school administrators, academic and
non-academic personnel against a child which results in or is likely to
result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or other
abuses including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion,
harassment, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty. It includes, but is not
limited to physical, sexual, psychological, and other acts of violence.
5. Corporal Punishment
“Corporal Punishment” - refers to a kind of punishment or penalty

imposed for an alleged or actual offense, which is carried out or inflicted,
for the purpose of discipline, training, or control, by a teacher, school
administrator, an adult, or any other child who has been given or has
assumed authority or responsibility for punishment or discipline.
6. Bullying Or Peer Abuse
“Bullying or Peer Abuse” – refers to willful aggressive behavior that is

directed towards a particular victim who may be outnumbered, younger,
weak, with a disability, less confident, or otherwise vulnerable, more
particularly bullying, and cyber-bullying.

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VIII. PROCEDURES AND REFERRAL

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IX. GENERAL CHILD PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
1. Ensuring the school practices safer recruitment in checking the

suitability of staff and volunteers to work with students.
2. Ensuring that all staff and volunteers understand and adhere to the
school’s code of conduct.
3. Establishing and maintaining a safe environment where all students feel

secure, can learn and develop, are encouraged to talk and are listened to,
where they’re valued and respected.
4. Supporting students who have been abused and carrying out specific
actions in accordance with the child protection policy case management
system.
5. Including opportunities in the curriculum for students to develop the

skills they need to recognize and stay safe from abuse.
6. Ensuring all teaching and support staff are aware of signs and symptoms
of abuse, know the correct procedure for referring concerns, or reporting
allegations against staff, and receive appropriate training to enable them
to carry and these requirements.
7. Encouraging and supporting parents, working in partnership with them.
X. DISIPLINARY MEASURES
A. VIOLATIONS OF STUDENTS

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 Light Offense defined as an act that is either (1) contrary to the

rules and regulations of the school as stated in the School
Handbook or (2) while not resulting in any physical injury or
damage to property, is inherently disruptive in nature.
1. Using profane or vulgar language, insulting remarks, and

name-calling inside and outside the school premises.
2. Disobedience to directives issued by teachers and other school

authorities (Simple disobedience).
3. Laughing boisterously or shouting inside the school premises.
4. Loitering, running in corridors, path walks, and places inside

the campus or being in an area designated for authorized
personnel only.
5. Using school uniform improperly inside/ or outside of the

school.
6. Improper Grooming (Disobeying the prescribed hair cut).
7. Inappropriate Attire (Wearing of earrings by male students

inside and outside the school campus while in uniform,
Wearing of more than one pair of earrings by female students
inside and outside of the school while in uniform).
8. Littering or disobeying school segregation rules.
*SANCTIONS:
FIRST OFFENSE: VERBAL REPRIMAND (Positive Discipline) Class

Adviser and Student.
SECOND OFFENSE: BEHAVIORAL CONTRACT (Agreement between the

student, parents stating that if the student violates the same offense,
he/shall be given disciplinary action.
THIRD OFFENSE: Agreement between the student, parent/guardian,

and guarantor- barangay official stating that if the student violates the
same offense, he/shall undergo community service.
FOURTH OFFENSE: Supervised Community Service.

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FIFTH OFFENSE: Refer back to parents/guardians for 3 days with

developmental learning intervention.
 Less Grave Offense- defined as an act that is a willful disregard of school

rules and regulations that results in less serious physical and/or material
injury.
1. using profanity or vulgar, racist, or sexually inappropriate

language to verbally abuse another student.
2. Engaging in fights or inflicting physical harm against another

student
3. Threats to inflict a wrong upon the person or property of the

person or on his or her family.
4. Deliberate destruction or damage to the property of the school

or things of other students, damaging school properties
(damaging textbooks, periodicals, and other references in the
library, school equipment, and supplies).
5. Posting offensive and damaging comments on photos and

posts on social media (cyberbullying).
6. Stalking or constantly following or pursuing a person in his or

her daily activities, with unwanted and obsessive attention.
7. Exacting money or property from a pupil or student.
8. Academic Dishonesty (Cheating, Stealing of test papers,

alteration of school records)
9. Disrespecting teachers and school personnel
10.Smoking inside the school premises
11.Falsification or using somebody’s gate pass Altering or deleting

of notices or announcements.
12.Going to the computer shops, any time of the day during

school days in uniform

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13.Cutting classes
*SANCTIONS:
FIRST OFFENSE OFFENSE: BEHAVIOR CONTRACT (Execute another

agreement between the student, parents, and guarantor (barangay
captain, councilors, priest, or anybody that may help the school or
parents).
SECOND OFFENSE: Supervised Community Service.
THIRD OFFENSE: Refer back to parents for 5 days with intervention and
referral if applicable.
NOTE: The first and second offenses must be satisfied first before the third
offense.
 Grave Offense is defined as any act that is a gross and willful disregard of
schools’ rules and regulations that may result in serious physical and/or
material injury.
1. Membership in any organization, group, or association that

espouses violence or any illegal or criminal activity (fraternity,
sorority, gang), or recruitment of members.
2. committing theft or assisting in the perpetration thereof inside

or outside school premises.
3. possessing or consuming any alcoholic drink or beverage while

on school premises or outside the campus while on official
school activity.
4. Gambling in any form inside the school premises
5. selling, possessing, or being under the influence of any illegal

or controlled drugs or substances or possessing paraphernalia
in connection with the use thereof.
6. Engaging in any form of voyeurism which includes the posting

of indecent or lewd photos or videos on the internet or
possessing of pornographic materials.

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7. Assaulting or assisting in the assault of teachers or other

school authorities.
8. Possessing deadly or pointed weapons inside the school.
9. Engaging in lewd or inappropriate conduct towards other

students, teachers, and other school authorities (public
display of affection, kissing, and hugging.
10. Engaging in fights or inflicting physical harm against another

student.
11.Exacting money or property from a pupil or student.
12.Academic Dishonesty (Cheating, Stealing of test papers,

alteration of school records).
*SANCTIONS:
FIRST OFFENSE: Rendering community service for five (5) days to the
school or barangay, intervention, and referral if applicable.
SECOND OFFENSE: Refer back to parents for five (3) days with
intervention and referral.
THIRD OFFENSE: Refer to parents for (5) days with intervention and
referral.
FOURTH OFFENSE: Refer to parents for an unidentified number of days

depending on the intervention and referral to be made.
B. VIOLATIONS OF SCHOOL VISITORS
 Reprimand or apologize to the person concerned.
 No longer allowed to enter school premises.
 Report to Barangay and/or Law enforcement depending on the

violation.

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C. VIOLATIONS OF SCHOOL PERSONNEL
Violations of school personnel shall be handled in accordance with

the provisions of case handling as stipulated by DepEd order no. 40,
S 2012.
Prepared and Submitted by the Child Protection Policy Committee:
MAGIELEN B. REYES
Chairperson
REALYN C. ALDAYA
Vice-Chairperson
Representatives:
JENNIE LYN A. CAROLINO

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Master Teacher I
MECHELLE A. CLEMENTE
PTA President
ZHANTAL MIN L. ARANDA

Supreme Pupil Government President
ROLANDO B. KATIGBAK
Brgy. Education Committee

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Republic of the Philippines

Payapa Ibaba, Lemery, Batangas

PAYAPA IBABA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL firmly believes in

Both education and rights are going through a refining process. It

 In accordance with the constitution, shield every child from cruel

III. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 Ensuring that effective child protection guidelines are in place,

 Ensure that the institution implements a child protection

 Ensure that all pupils, faculty, guardians, staff also visitors,

 Keep a log of all interactions involving bullying or peer abuse

Payapa Ibaba, Lemery, Batangas

 Establish the value of respect and humility.

 Ensure the utilization of constructive and non-violent

 The school's policies must be carefully followed by all students

 Bullying and humiliating others.

 Deal with drugs and alcohol

 Fight with others

 Sexual involvement and harassment

 Using bad words

D. SCHOOL VISITORS AND GUEST

 Visitors may not interrupt classes in session or coordinate with

 Visitors will be subject to security screening (if available)

 Visitors will not take part in nor encourage any illegal

IV. SCOPE OF THE POLICY

The school-based Child Protection Policy shall apply to:

Payapa Ibaba, Lemery, Batangas

1. SCHOOL PERSONNEL – means the person singly or collectively, working in

C. OTHER PERSONNEL – includes all other non-academic personnel in

2. CHILDREN IN SCHOOL – refers to bonafide pupils, students, or learners

V. DEFINITION OF TERMS AND TYPE OF ABUSE

1. Child Abuse- refers to the maltreatment of a child, whether habitual or not,

Payapa Ibaba, Lemery, Batangas

2. Discrimination against children - refers to an act of exclusion, distinction,

3. Violence against children committed in schools - refers to a single act or

A. Physical violence refers to acts that inflict bodily or physical harm. It

B. Sexual violence refers to acts that are sexual in nature. It includes,

C. Psychological violence refers to acts or omissions causing or likely

Other acts of violence of a physical, sexual, or psychological nature that

Payapa Ibaba, Lemery, Batangas

4. Bullying - refers to any severe or repeated use by oschool,ore students of a

b. Any act that causes damage to a victim’s emotional well-being.

c. Any slanderous statement or accusation that causes the victim.

undue emotional distress like directing foul language or profanity at

d. Threats to inflict a wrong upon a person, honor, or property of the

e. Stalking or constantly following or pursuing a person in his/ her

g. Public humiliation, or public malicious imputation of a crime or of

h. Deliberate destruction or defacement of, or damage to the child’s

i. Demanding or requiring sexual or monetary favors, or exacting

money or property, from a pupil or student.

j. Restraining the liberty and freedom of a student; and

k. Cyberbullying is any conduct defined in the preceding.

paragraph as resulting in harassment, intimidation, or

Other acts of abuse by a pupil, student or learner"- refers to other

5. Corporal Punishment - refers to a kind of punishment or penalty imposed

B. Striking of a child's face or head, such being declared as a "no contact

C. Pulling hair, shaking, twisting joints, cutting, or piercing skin,

dragging, pushing, or throwing a child.

D. Forcing a child to perform physically painful or damaging acts such

E. Deprivation of a child's physical needs as a form of punishment.

F. Deliberate exposure to fire, ice, water, smoke, sunlight, rain, pepper,