{"id":31693,"date":"2026-09-01T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=31693"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:13:58","slug":"education-ministry-moves-to-finalise-anti-bullying-policy-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/education-ministry-moves-to-finalise-anti-bullying-policy-for-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry\u00a0moves to finalise\u00a0anti-bullying policy for schools\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Shamiah Grant <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Education has wrapped up its National Anti-Bullying and Anti-Violence Nationwide&nbsp;Consultation and&nbsp;is now working with multiple agencies to finalize a comprehensive policy for schools across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Education Minister Sonia Parag says the Ministry is partnering with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security to draft the measures, which will become mandatory Standard Operating Procedures in the school system once finalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut we\u2019ve encouraged all headmistresses, all headteachers, to at assembly every morning, speak about this particular issue. We have been placing posters, and had students actually involved in the placement of those posters in strategic areas in their schools,\u201d she said. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The policies are expected to set enforceable guidelines aimed at curbing violence and bullying in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>Well, eventually we would like a legislation, but of course that will be the final stage.<\/strong> <strong>But at the moment, I think that having policies and something to work with in the school system is&nbsp;necessary, and so the first phase of that would be policies&nbsp;that can be SOPs<\/strong>,\u201d she added. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parag says the rollout of the new Civic and Moral Education curriculum across all school levels will reinforce the initiative by promoting positive behaviour and character development.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Shamiah Grant The Ministry of Education has wrapped up its National Anti-Bullying and Anti-Violence Nationwide&nbsp;Consultation and&nbsp;is now working with multiple agencies to finalize a comprehensive policy for schools across&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,350],"tags":[488,370,462,412,405],"class_list":["post-31693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31704,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31693\/revisions\/31704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}