Saif bin Zayed attends signing of MoU for child protection

H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, yesterday attended the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, at the General Headquarters of Abu Dhabi Police, between the Ministry of Interior's Child Protection Centre and the Abu Dhabi Education Council, in an effort to help protect school children from abuse in all its forms.

The MoU was signed by Dr. Amal Abdulla Al Qubaisi, the Director-General of Abu Dhabi Education Council, and Dr. Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, Secretary-General of the Office of H.H. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Higher Committee for Child Protection.

The MoU aims to develop systems, policies, and programmes to ensure the protection of school students, and also develop a unified mechanism for reporting cases of suspected neglect or exploitation.

Dr. Amal Al Qubaisi stressed the UAE leadership's keenness to provide protection for children, which is guaranteed by its constitution, adding that child protection is a national and humanitarian duty.

She added that Abu Dhabi schools are obliged to take responsibility and protect students from any risk or abuse that threatens their safety and security, and should adopt the provision of care and assistance, and the reporting of incidents as a fundamental principle among all employees.