Child safety is not one person's job. It is the whole school's.

Audit Current Systems

Train Staff Across Roles

Establish Policies and Clubs

We audit your current systems, examining campus protocols, reporting mechanisms, and physical risk points across school facilities.

We train academic, support, transport and security staff to ensure every adult recognizes indicators of harm and POCSO response duties.

We help you set up policies, reporting routes and student safety clubs so protection becomes an active, student-involved routine.

100+ Schools

Equipped with safety kits and tools

Child safety kits and tools in 100+ schools across Chennai, Chengalpet, Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur, funded by Lennox India Technology Centre.

The Eight Pillars of Whole School Safety

Each pillar couples a foundational diagnostic question with concrete operational actions to build an unshakeable institutional safety net.

Safe school culture

Policies and protocols

Capacity of adults

Child participation

Core question: Does every child feel safe, respected and heard?

Core question: Are rules clear and rights-aligned?

Core question: Can adults recognise and respond to risk?

Core question: Do children have safe ways to speak?

Key actions: Child protection policy, code of conduct, complaint mechanism, digital-safety policy.

Key actions: Child-safety vision, anti-bullying norms, respectful language, inclusive classrooms.

Key actions: Training for teachers, non-teaching staff, transport staff, security and leaders.

Key actions: Safety clubs, peer supporters, suggestion boxes, student safeguarding representatives.

Curriculum and life skills

Parent and community

Reporting and response

Monitoring & review

Core question: Are children taught prevention skills?

Core question: Are homes and communities aligned with the school?

Core question: Is there a safe, confidential response system?

Core question: Is the school learning and improving?

Key actions: Designated safeguarding focal point, documentation, referral to authorities and support services, follow-up.

Key actions: Personal safety, consent, boundaries, online safety, gender equality, help-seeking.

Key actions: Parent workshops, community awareness, local child-protection linkages.

Key actions: Annual safety audit, feedback from children, incident-pattern review, action plan.

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Eight guiding principles

We deliver customized sessions for groups of 20 or more staff members, conducted in English or Tamil to fit your institution's specific needs.

Our entire Whole School framework is anchored in eight non-negotiable standards: child-centred, prevention-first, whole-school responsibility, gender-responsive, trauma-informed, inclusive, rights-based, confidential and accountable.

Direct institutional inquiries: trainings@aware.org.in