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The Child Care Board Barbados' child protection agency has intensified its efforts at trying to stamp out an apparent upsurge in sex involving students in schools
“The Child Care Board has been working very closely with the Ministry of Education on these matters in an effort to provide education to the principals. It is only recently the Ministry of Education facilitated a panel discussion with principals, members of the police force and the Child Care Board, where we provided information to all primary school principals on how to proceed with matters as they relate to child sexual abuse within the school system,” child abuse coordinator, Colin St Hill told Trakker News.
“ We would have provided that type of information, helped to give them some guidelines and we had dialogue, so that if there were any questions, they would be able to get them clarified.This is one of the approaches we have used in recent times, and I believe that will bear fruit, because the knowledge in terms of how to proceed is critical in helping some of these children, who were abused,” the senior child care officer pointed out.
