updates and directions

Updates and Directions

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Timeline of Important Issuances

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01/24/2020OUA Memo No. 08-0120-0598

Department of Education’s

Response on Health Problems

due to Coronavirus and Re-emergence of

Polio in the Philippines

02/01/2020DM No. 11, s.

2020

Creation of a Task Force for the Management of

the Department of Education

Response to Novel

Coronavirus Acute Respiratory

Disease(Amended on

02/11/2020 through

DM No. 19, s. 2020)

02–03/2020DMs 15, 21, 23, 31, 34, s. 2020

First to Fifth Sets of Policy

Directives of the DepEd Task

Force COVID-19

Continuous Issuances of DTFC Memoranda for COVID-19-Response-Related Concerns in DepEd

04/27/2020DOH AO

2020-0015

DOH Guidelines on the

Risk-Based Public Health Standards of COVID-19 Mitigation

06/25/2020DO 14, s. 2020

Guidelines on the Required Health

Standards in Basic Education Offices

and Schools

11/26/2020DOH DM

2020-0512

Revised Omnibus Interim Guidelines

on Prevention Detection, Isolation,

Treatment, and Reintegration, Strategies for

COVID-19

• Ongoing Development of the Omnibus Guidelines on the Minimum Public Health Standards for the Safe Reopening of the Economy (which includes Education Sector)

• Ongoing Development of a Joint Circular between DepEd and the DOH on the Minimum Health Standards for the Reopening of Schools for Face to Face Classes

JAN 20 FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC JAN 21 FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JUL AUG


DepEd Required Health Standards

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• DepEd Order No. 14, s. 2020 or the Guidelines on the Required Health Standards in Basic Education Offices and Schools (25 June 2020)

• Aimed at ensuring safe return to schools when physical classes are already allowed by the President and/or other national authorities


DepEd’s Required Health Standards

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• Shall be adopted by the DepEd CO, ROs, SDOs, and all public and private elementary and secondary schools/CLCs

• Primarily based on the DOH AO 2020-0015 or the Guidelines on the Risk-Based Public Health Standards of COVID-19 Mitigation


Why Mitigation?

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“In the absence of specific treatment or a vaccine, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) form the backbone of the response to the COVID-19 outbreak. NPIs are public health strategies meant to mitigate* and suppress transmissionof infectious diseases.”

*to become milder; lessen in severity (dictionary.com)


Required (Minimum)

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Other measures may be instituted guided by the principles (DOH AO 2020-0015)

Shared accountability

Evidence-based decision making

Socio-economic equity and rights-based

approach


Required Health Standards Framework

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Specific measures or

interventions for schools and

offices

Increase physical and mental resilience

Reduce transmission

Reduce contact

Reduce duration of infection

4 COVID-19 Mitigation Objectives


Measures for Schools

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Schools (Enclosure No. 2)I. Routines and Protocols for Health

and SafetyA. General Health and Safety

ProtocolsB. Detection and ReferralC. School Activities and EventsD. School Clinic and Health ServicesE. DepEd Health and Safety Policies

II. Physical Arrangement in Schools

NOTE: To be followed in all basic education schools and community learning centers (CLCs), and DepEd offices, when and to extent that personnel, teachers, non-teaching personnel, and learners will already be allowed to physically return to DepEd schools and/or offices

II. Support MechanismsA. Physical and Mental ResilienceB. Administrative Support

IV. Screening of Returning Personnel and Learners and Testing Protocol

For the purpose of this presentation, the DO contains 45 specific measures for schools.


Important Directions Laid Out in the DO

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• Cooperate with DepEd in carrying out the provisions set forth in these standards

• Report any COVID-19 related concerns to the DepEd Task Force COVID-19 for Central Office concerns, or to their respective COVID-19 DRRM Teams for Regional, Division, or school-level concerns

• Comply with the standards on health and work safety issued by the Department, and participate in related programs, initiatives, and activities

• Responsibly use and manage all safety, hygiene, and sanitary resources provided by the agency

• Contextualize and adapt implementation processes and procedures according to the socio-cultural realities and contexts of learners and their communities

• Support government initiatives for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic


Comprehensive Approach10

1. School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP)and other nutrition support programs

2. Medical, Dental (School Dental Health Care Program [SDHCP]), and Nursing Services

3. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)in Schools (WinS) Program

4. Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH)5. National Drug Education Program (NDEP),

with Comprehensive Tobacco Control6. School Mental Health Program

• SBFP –Provision of hotmeals/nutritious food products (NFPs) and milk to undernourished learners from Kindergarten to Grade 6 to improve their classroom attendance and nutritional status

• Other nutrition support programs: Nutrition education, Integrated School Nutrition Model (ISNM)

• Delivery of medical, dental, and nursing services to learners by medical doctors, dentists, and nurses nationwide

• Establishment of medical and dental clinics in selected schools, and the provision of medical and dental supplies

A comprehensive, sustainable, and scalable school-based program that sets the basic requirements and standards on five key elements

• Water• Sanitation• Hygiene• Deworming• Health education

Aims to strengthen DepEd's delivery of its mandates under Republic Act 10354, or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012

• Age- and development-appropriate reproductive health education

• Integration of responsible parenthood and reproductive health information in formal, non-formal, and indigenous learning, and in teacher-child-parent activities

• Supportive school environment

• NDEP – Holisticapproach to theproblem of drugabuse bycollaboratingwith all sectorsunder a unified, scientific,research-based, and responsive procedure

• Comprehensive Tobacco Control – Ensuring compliance with national laws and issuances on tobacco control for the protection of learners

Focuseson the mandate of DepEd on mental health promotion in schools, under RA 11036 or the Mental Health Act

• Raising awareness on mental health issues

• Identification and provision of basic support and services for learners at risk

• Facilitating access, including referral mechanisms of learners with mental health conditions to treatment and psychosocial support


WinS CAPACITY BUILDING MATERIALS AND COVID INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL PREVENTION MATERIALS

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Website Updates

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• Additional resources have been uploaded to the WinS Webpage


WinS OMS Plans and Direction

• Updating of Online Monitoring system- Additional Dashboard features- Integration of OMS to DepEd current system for updated

masterlist of schools and others- Mobile application development

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TSA Recognition

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• Change in Criteria 1:

• Optional validation process during prolonged disruptions

• Change where to encode and upload the information Proposed

Changes in SDO

Monitoring

IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOLS IN THE WINS IMPLEMENTATION LEVELThis looks into the number of schools who were able to move-up one or twoimplementation levels or able to maintain three-star ratings as measured using the Three-Star Approach


UPCOMING PLANNED EVENTS

• 1st Seal of Excellence Recognition• 2nd WinS Year End Forum 2021• WinS National Learning Exchange• WinS Research Capacity Building

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Bureau of Learner Support Services- School Health Division

[email protected]@

(+63) 2 8632-9935

deped.gov.ph

3F Mabini Building. DepEd ComplexMeralco Avenue, Pasig City 1600

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