ATTY.

ARIZ DELSON CAWILAN

DEPED’s VISION
As a learner-centered public
institution, the Department of
Education continuously
improves itself to better serve
its stakeholders
 DEPED’s MISSION
To protect and promote the right of
every Filipino to quality, equitable,
culture-based, and complete basic
education where:

• Students learn in a child-friendly,

gender-sensitive, safe, and
motivating environment …
 Report on the Incidence of Child Abuse in
Schools
1428
500

450 2013 – 2014

400 2014 – 2015
2015 – 2016
350
Incidence of Child Abuse

300

250

200

150

100

50

0
CAR NCR I II III IV – A IV – B V VI NIR VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII
Regions
 Report on the Incidence of Child Abuse in Schools
INCIDENCE OF CHILD ABUSE IN SCHOOLS
REGION 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018
CAR 61 36 73 23
NCR 182 1,428 300 326

I 28 167 243 21
II 19 65 83 513
III 26 492 5,611 121
IV-A 59 80 292 124
IV-B 10 20 14 23
V 12 156 0 127
VI 25 35 36 21
VII 26 32 65 13
VIII 17 11 150 239
IX 14 74 0 41
X 5 74 47 364
XI 23 18 239 335
XII 9 0 347 66
XIII 5 18 267 103
Total 521 2,706 7,767 2,460
 Report on the Incidence of Bullying in
Schools
3000
10,235
2800 2013 – 2014
2014 – 2015
2600
2015-2016
2400

2200

2000
Incidence of Bullying

1800

1600

1400

1200

1000

800

600

400

200

0
CAR NCR I II III IV – A IV – B V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII
Regions
 Report on the Incidence of Bullying in Schools

REGION 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018

CAR 78 465 764 196
NCR 561 195 2,481 3,769

I 89 1,474 2,217 1,506

II 75 1,044 1,855 1,671
III 16 62 12,099 1,980
IV-A 143 976 1,714 1,700
IV-B 16 62 1,277 397
V 10 704 716 716
VI 37 2,795 837 1,450
VII 8 91 988 579
VIII 47 291 1,123 882
IX 0 0 0 454
X 30 560 1,105 2,455
XI 44 555 1,470 1,989
XII 36 510 1,795 1,957
XIII 0 555 1,688 358
Total 1,190 10,339 32,129 22,059
 The State shall protect the right of
children to assistance, including
proper care and nutrition, and special
protection from all forms of neglect,
abuse, cruelty, exploitation and other
conditions prejudicial to their
development (Art. XV. Sec. 3(b))
 All educational institutions
shall…x x x… foster love of humanity,
respect for human rights …x x
x...develop moral character and
personal discipline… (Article XIV,
Section 3, (b))
“gives the school, its administrators and teachers,
or the individual, entity or institution engaged
in child care the SPECIAL PARENTAL AUTHORITY
and responsibility over the minor child while
under their supervision, instruction or
custody”…..
 Art. 233
The person exercising substitute parental authority
shall have the same authority over the person of the
child as the parents.
In no case shall the school administrator, teacher or
individual engaged in child care exercising special
parental authority inflict corporal punishment upon
the child. (n)
 Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers
Art. VIII
Sec. 2 A teacher shall recognize that the interest and
welfare of learners are of first and foremost concern,
and shall deal justifiably and impartially with each of
them.
Sec. 8 A teacher shall not inflict corporal punishment
on offending learners nor make deductions from their
scholastic ratings as a punishment for acts which are
clearly not manifestation of poor scholarship
 WHY ARE THERE VARIOUS LAWS
TO PROTECT SCHOOL CHILDREN?

• VULNERABILITY OF CHILDREN:
– Children are incapable of fully protecting
themselves.

• ADDRESS A WRONG PRACTICE:

– Most children grow up doing the same thing their
parent were doing.
 – Most teachers teach the way their teachers taught
and treated them.

–“Cycle of Abuse”
• FOR THE STATE TO KEEP UP WITH ITS
MANDATE
-It is the obligation of the State to protect its
children.
-Law provides penalties for perpetrators.
Legal Consequences
1. Civil Liability
2. Criminal Prosecution
3. Administrative Sanctions
 CHILD PROTECTION
Refers to programs, services,
procedures and structures that are
intended to prevent and respond
to abuse, neglect, exploitation,
discrimination and violence.
 PREVENT RESPOND
1. Adopt Child Protection Policy 1. Reporting procedure
2. Inform all stakeholders 2. Referral procedures
about CPP 3. Intervention Mechanisms
3. Rules on Safe food, water 4. Investigation and
and surroundings for Administrative Procedures
children
4. Precautionary actions during
sports/off-campus
activities
5. Integration of CPP in
curriculum
 CHILD PROTECTION COVERS ALL DIVERSE ASPECTS OF
SCHOOL OPERATIONS

It encompasses everything while Children are in

School or in School-Related Activities:

-Ensure freedom from abuses

-Ensure safe and secure learning
environment
-Ensure freedom from health hazards
 DEPED CHILD PROTECTION & ANTI-
BULLYING POLICY
• Crafted as a pro-active response of DepEd to
Reports of Bullying and Child Abuse.
• Creation of a forum to address child abuse and
Bullying in schools.
• Protect PUBLIC & PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENT
• Protect TEACHERS from Being the Subject of
Complaints
SALIENT FEATURES OF THE DEPED
CHILD PROTECTION POLICY
 FORMS OF CHILD ABUSE:
1. PHYSICAL ABUSE: Any act that inflict bodily
or Physical Harm.
- Most common form of Child Abuse
-Often viewed as child discipline in schools
-Boxing, Kicking, Slapping, Spanking etc…
 2. SEXUAL ABUSE
• Includes:
a. Rape, Sexual Harassment, Acts of
Lasciviousness, Making demeaning and sexually
suggestive remarks, Physically attacking sexual
parts

b. Forcing a child to watch obscene publication

and shows
 Sexual Harassment (CSC)
• Is an act, or a series of act, involving any

Unwelcome sexual advance;

Request or demand for a sexual favor;

Other verbal or physical behavior of a sexual

nature.
 WHERE COMMITTED:
• Workplace or Office or the school or training
institution;

• Any place where the parties were found as a

result of work or education or training
responsibilities or relations;

• Work or education or training-related social

functions;
• Official business outside the office or school or
training institution or during travel;

• Official conference, for a, symposia or training

sessions; or

• Telephone, cellular phone, fax machine or

electronic mail.
HOW COMMITTED:

1. Unwanted touching of private parts of

the body

2. Sexual assault;

3. Malicious touching;

4. Requesting sexual favor in exchange

of…….;
 5. Unwanted touching or brushing against a
victim’s body;
6. Pinching not falling under grave offenses;

7. Derogatory or degrading remarks ;

8. Verbal abuse with sexual overtones;
9. Surreptitiously looking or staring a look of a person’s
private part or worn undergarments;
10. Telling sexist/smutty jokes or sending these though
text, electronic mail or other similar means;

11. Malicious leering or ogling;

12. The display of sexually offensive pictures, materials;

13. Unwelcome inquires or comments about a person’s sex

life;

14. Unwelcome sexual flirtation, advances, propositions;

15. Making offensive hand or body gestures;

16. Persistent unwanted attention with sexual overtones;

17. Unwelcome phone calls with sexual overtones

casing discomfort, embarrassment, offense or insult to
the receiver;
3. PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE:
-Causing mental and emotional suffering.
Includes:
-Intimidation, Harassment, Stalking, Damage to
property, Public Ridicule, Threat of Deduction of grade
as a form of punishment and Repeated verbal abuse.
-Any kind of punishment or penalty
-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.
 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
Punishment or Penalty Includes
Any of the Following:
1. Infliction of Bodily Harm
eg: beating, slapping, kicking, whipping
2. Forcing a child to perform painful or damaging
acts
eg: Holding weights, kneeling on stones
3. Deprivation of a child’s physical need/s
4. Tying up a child
5. Deliberate exposure of a child to fire, ice,
water, smoke, pepper, rain, sunlight.
6. Forcing a child to swallow any substance that
causes discomfort or poses danger to a child’s
health
7. Confinement of a child/ Deprivation of liberty
8. Verbal abuse and assaults
9. Forcing a child to wear a sign, undress of to
put a child in a in situations that make them
feel foolish or embarrassed in front of others
10. Permanent confiscation of a child’s personal
property, EXCEPT if such property poses
danger to the child or to others.

11. Other analogous cases.

 MOST COMMON FORMS OF CHILD ABUSE
DURING SPORTS TRAINING AND COMPETITION

SEXUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL
ABUSE
ABUSE

CHILD CORPORAL
EXPLOITATION PUNISHMENT

BULLYING
DISCRIMINATION AND PEER
ABUSE

Physical Abuse
In case of Child Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination
Committed by Public School Personnel:

1. File complaint with School Head/D.O./R.O.

2. School Head shall immediately Report the same to

the Division Office.

MAY report to the Local Social Welfare and

Development Office (LSWDO) or Children and
Women’s Desk
 PUBLIC SCHOOL’S CHECKLIST
(Child Abuse Cases)
1. It should INFORM the Parents of the incident
and the action taken in Writing;

2. It should REFER the victim-student to the CPC;

3. Intervention Programs are being made;

4. It should REPORT the matter to the Division

Office immediately through a letter;
 3 Way Action on Child
Abuse CASES
SCHOOL DIVISION OFFICE REGIONAL OFFICE
1. Intervention 1. Monitor
Program for 1. Investigate the
Affected Child Intervention case
Program for
2. Referral of the 2. Hear and Decide
Child to other Affected Child
agencies, when the case
2. Investigation,
needed when required 3. Ensure
3. Ensure Confidentiality of
Confidentiality 3. Ensure
of the Case Confidentiality of the Case
the Case
 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10627
AN ACT REQUIRING ALL ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
SCHOOLS TO ADOPT POLICIES TO PREVENT AND
ADDRESS THE ACTS OF BULLYING IN THEIR
INSTITUTIONS

DepEd Order No.55 Series of 2013

SALIENT FEATURES OF THE
DEPED ANTI-BULLYING
POLICY
BULLYING ACT:
Elements: if one is not present, there is no
bullying
1. Act is -severe or repeated
-written, verbal, physical or electronic

2. Act is done by a student vs. student

3. Act causes either of the following:

–Causes reasonable fear of physical,

emotional or damage to property;
–Creates a hostile environment;
 WHERE PROHIBITTED:

1. School Grounds
2. Places adjacent to the School;
3. Places where school activities are held;
4. School Bus Stops;
5. School Bus or Vehicles;
6. Web/ Internet
 CHARACTERISTICS
• Committed by a student/s
against a co-student/s;
• Willful and Aggressive
Behavior
• Victim is out-numbered,
younger, weak, disabled,
less confident or
vulnerable.
Bullying Act Includes:
• Threats to inflict a wrong;

• Stalking/ Unwanted and

Obsessive Attention;
• Taking of Property

• Public Humiliation
• Deliberate Destruction or Defacement of
Property
• Physical Violence
• Demanding or Requiring Sexual of Monetary
favors
• Restraining the freedom of a co-student
• Includes also Cyber Bullying
 PROCEDURES IN HANDLING BULLYING CASES:
A. BULLYING:
1. Report to School Head;

-Anonymous complaints should

be entertained.
-Public schools are not allowed to
refer the issue to the Barangay Officials
for settlement.

2. Any school personnel should:

Stop the Bullying Immediately.
-Separate/Remove the victim/bully in the site
-Attend to the medical needs
-Bring Bully to Guidance Office or point
person
3. School Head INFORMS THE PARENTS OF THE
INCIDENT and the steps to be done in the
investigation and actions to avoid further
bullying

4. SET MEETING WITH PARENTS

FOR THE INVESTIGATION;

5. REFERRAL OF VICTIM OR OFFENDER TO CPC-ABC

for intervention
-Determine interventions to be done.
 6. FACT FINDING AND DOCUMENTATION
-Separate interview with parties;
-should be with the Parents
-Students/Parents should be given
opportunity to give written comments
7. IMPOSE APPLICABLE PENALTY ON THE BULLY:
-Depends on the gravity of the act.
-Written Reprimand, Community Service, Suspension,
Exclusion or Expulsion
-Decision Should be in Writing
(Note: All must be in writing for records purposes.)
B. In Case of Serious Physical Injuries or Death

- Same Step as in Bullying

-You MAY report to the Local Social Welfare

and Development Office (LSWDO) or Children
and Women’s Desk

-Make an Immediate Incident Report to the

concerned Division Office
 PUBLIC SCHOOL’S CHECKLIST
(Bullying Cases)
1. It should INFORM the Parents of the incident and the
action taken in Writing;
2. It should REFER the victim and bully-student to the
CPC-ABC;
3. It should THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE the matter and
accomplish the Intake Sheet attached as Annex “B” of
DepEd Order No. 40, S 2012;
4. It should REPORT AND SUBMIT THE INTAKE SHEET
with the Division Office after its investigation;
5. IMPOSE THE APPROPRIATE SANCTION against the
erring STUDENT, as the case maybe.
 BEST PRACTICES
TO ENFORCE
ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY
AGAINST ALL FORMS OF ABUSES
 BEST PRACTICES
TIPS TO AVOID CHILD ABUSE/BULLYING
1. WIDE Advocacy and Information
Dissemination Programs/Activities:
-To all Athletes, Officials and Parents
-Posters, Signs, News Letters, etc.
 TIPS TO AVOID ABUSE/BULLYING IN
SCHOOLS
2. “NO FEAR”- Encourage Reporting all forms of
Abuse/Bullying to Teachers/School Authorities
-It’s every body’s right to be protected
TIPS TO AVOID CHILD ABUSE/BULLYING
3. “GIVE A HELPING HAND”- Stop on going
abuse or bullying when necessary.
-But do not put the law in your own hands
-Request for assistance
TIPS TO AVOID CHILD ABUSE/BULLYING
4. “RESPECT BEGETS RESPECT”
-Value of Sportsmanship
-Respect to Processes
-Leading by Example
5. Teach Children to Exercise his rights
responsibly in the knowledge that he is
answerable for any infringement or violation of
the public welfare and of the rights of others.
 6. ESTABLISHMENT OF PALARO CHILD
PROTECTION COMMITTEE/
ANTI-BULLYING COMMITTEE(CPC-ABC)
Recommended Composition: (6)
1. LEGAL OFFICER– Chairperson
2. EPS/FOCAL PERSON FOR CHILD PROTECTION –Vice
Chairperson
3. Teacher/Child Protection Specialist
4. Parent Representative
5. Student Representative (Senior)
6. Representative from the Community (place of billeting)
as designated by the Punong Barangay, preferably from
the BCPC.
 FUNCTIONS OF CPC or ABC:
1. Draft Palaro Child Protection Policy and Anti-Bullying
Policy with Code of Conduct.

2. Identify, Refer and Report to Appropriate Offices cases

involving child abuse and Bullying.

3. Giving Assistance to Parents/Guardians in case of

abuse or bullying.

4. Initiate information dissemination programs for the

protection of children during palaro;
5. Ensure that the children’s right to be heard
are respected and upheld in all matters and
procedures affecting their welfare.

6. Provide Counseling and Intervention

Program to Victims or Offenders in Bullying
and Peer abuse cases

7. May Refer the Abuser/Victim/Bully to the

WOMEN AND CHILD PROTECTION UNIT
 “WE ARE YOUR
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