90% of Dakshina Kannada schools lack child protection policy document: Panel

TheChild Rights Masotsava Committeehas observed that 90% of the schools inDakshina Kannadado not have a child protection policy document. The Karnataka State Child Rights Policy-2016 has even

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prescribed a template for child protection policy for schools.

With the increasing numbers of crimes against children, especially sexual abuse and cyber crime, having a child protection policy document is the need of the hour, and the committee will insist that the administration make it mandatory.