New safety curriculum endorsed
PA Wellington The new police safety programme for children, Keeping Ourselves Safe, which includes units on preventing and coping with sexual abuse, has •won approval from teachers, children and parents at the schools which tried it earlier this year.
The police curriculum development officer, Mr Owen Sanders, said there had been almost unanimous support for the programme, which replaces the now obsolete Stranger Danger campaign. “There was only a very small group of parents who said they would not want their children to do it again,” he said. Keeping Ourselves Safe, which was developed jointly with the Education Department, deals with , a
range of safety issues, including road safety, staying alone in a house, and incest and other sexual ,-iabuse. It aims to help children to say “no” to touching they do not like, and to realise that they are not to blame when adults touch them in an inappropriate manner. Mr Sanders said the children involved in the trials had been very enthusiastic about the programme.
“I think they felt relieved that the school was dealing with this very important issue in their lives,” he said. Some of the programme material is now being revised, and it is hoped that the final version will be available to schools using the new health education syllabus next year.
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