More than 51% of educational institutions are ready to start full-time education, — Alyona Matveeva
Students will only be able to return to study offline if all security measures are taken by the educational institution. The decision on the beginning of the educational process and the form of training in educational institutions will be made separately in each region, or even in each educational institution. In this regard, a study of the situation continues on the ground and, depending on the level of security, distance or face-to-face training will be chosen. This was stated during the briefing by the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alyona Matveeva.
“The new school year starts in a few days. Creating a safe environment is a joint task of state and local authorities, as well as all participants in the educational process. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is included in the preparation for the school year at once in several planes. The project “Safe educational environment in conditions of war” was launched, which provides, in particular, that the services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will inspect all educational institutions,” said Alyona Matveeva.
According to her, during the implementation of the project, commissions for surveys of buildings and structures have been created and operate in all regions in order to determine the possibilities of their use to shelter participants in the educational process. The commissions include specialists of the State Emergency Service, structural units of local, military state administrations on civil protection, education and science, architecture and construction, etc.
“Currently, more than 23,5 thousand, and this is 93%, of educational institutions have been inspected. We started with a little more than 10% readiness of educational institutions for the school year. Today we have more than 50%, with 48% participants in the educational process. Among them, almost 10% of educational institutions, that is 2 thousand 389, with the same proportion of participants in the educational process, organized shelters in their own protective structures. Another 36% of educational institutions, which are 9,477 institutions with 34% of participants in the educational process, which is almost 2.5 million people, organized shelters in their own dual-purpose buildings and the simplest shelters. Another 6% of educational institutions, this is 1645, out of 4% of the participants in the educational process, almost 270 thousand people, organized shelters in the objects of the fund of protective structures of other economic entities,” the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine noted.
The spokeswoman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that, without taking into account the regions where active hostilities are being conducted and the temporarily occupied territories, educational institutions in the Nikolaev area are currently the worst provided with shelters. It provides shelters for 17% of educational institutions with 19% of participants in the educational process, in the Dnipropetrovsk region - 31% of educational institutions with 30% of participants in the educational process, in the Volyn region - 37% of educational institutions with 44% participants in the educational process, in Sumy region - 38% of educational institutions with 31% of participants in the educational process.
“The best performance in Chernivtsi region. There, 82% of educational institutions with 80% of participants in the educational process are provided with shelters. In the Transcarpathian region, 82% of educational institutions with 67% participants in the educational process are provided with shelter. In Lviv region 81% of educational institutions are provided with shelters. Shelter for 71% of educational institutions is provided in Kyiv, work on ensuring the safety of the educational process continues,” Alyona Matveeva added.
Also, during the implementation of the project, the Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has developed a “Safety Alphabet” for a secondary school student, so that each child can find answers to questions about how to behave in various dangerous situations.
“The Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has collected key recommendations from rescuers and police officers, doctors and teachers, psychologists and lawyers. This alphabet provides basic guidelines for behavior in emergency situations related to martial law — from responding to an “Air Alert” signal to basic actions in the event of a chemical or radioactive hazard, and covers issues of bullying and traffic rules. It is available on the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine,” Alyona Matveeva summed up.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
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