Schools asked to form student safety panel

Online classes to be recorded

The School Education Department has called for all schools in Tamil Nadu to constitute a student safeguarding advisory committee (SAC) which will continually review, monitor and recommend steps at the institutional level on all aspects of student safety. This is a part of the guidance document issued for schools in Tamil Nadu on student safety and protection from sexual violence. The SAC should comprise of the principal, two teachers, two members of the PTA, a management representative, a non-teaching staff member and an optional external member. After several allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and misconduct surfaced on social media against faculty members in schools in the city, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had called for forming a committee by the School Education Commissioner for issuing guidelines regarding online classes.