{"id":24390,"date":"2023-05-23T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/?p=24390"},"modified":"2023-06-05T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:25:18","slug":"sierra-leone-prohibits-corporal-punishment-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/sierra-leone-prohibits-corporal-punishment-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone prohibits corporal punishment in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n            <div class=\"separator- glacier-section\"  id=\"section-69d79d85417bd\">\n            <div class=\"container\">\n                <section>\n                    \n<div class=\"row\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-8\" style=\"background: transparent  \">\n\t<div class=\"text-block shortcode-container\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\n\t<p>In April 2023, with the enactment of the Basic and Senior Secondary Education Act, 2023, Sierra Leone explicitly prohibited corporal punishment of children in schools.<\/p><p>Section 72 (1) of the Basic and Senior Secondary Education Act, 2023 states: \u201ccorporal punishment and all other forms of degrading punishment designed to cause, or create the reasonable fear of, physical pain in a pupil, administered or threatened for the purposed of domination or control are prohibited.\u201d<\/p><p>The Basic and Senior Secondary Education Act, 2023 bans corporal punishment administered by school staff and teachers.\u00a0 It prohibits any person or students\u2019 relatives from inflicting corporal punishment or threatening students on school grounds (section 72 (2) (3)). The new Act also recommends the use of \u201calternative forms of discipline including positive methods\u201d for child development (section 72 (4)).<\/p><p>With this new legislation, Sierra Leone becomes the 136th state worldwide to legally protect children from corporal punishment in schools. In 2019, Sierra Leone endorsed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.end-violence.org\/safe-to-learn\">#SafetoLearn Call to Action<\/a>, which aims to end violence in and around all schools, through implementation of policy and legislation.<\/p><p>However, corporal punishment remains lawful in the home, alternative care settings and day care, since the concept of \u201creasonable\u201d and \u201cjustifiable\u201d correction of children is still included in the Child Rights Act 2007.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>The Basic and Senior Secondary Education Act also included explicit prohibition of all forms of exploitation and abuse of students, and protections for young mothers. Read more about the Act's additional provisions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.end-violence.org\/articles\/sierra-leones-new-basic-and-senior-secondary-education-act-enables-safer-and-more-0\">here.<\/a><\/p><p>Find out more in our <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/reports-on-every-state-and-territory\/sierra-leone\/\">country report for\u00a0Sierra Leone<\/a><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Learn more about:<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/countdown\/\">Global progress towards universal prohibition of corporal punishment<\/a><\/li><li>Prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment in <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/schools\/\">school settings.<\/a><\/li><li>Read our new report on <a href=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/new-report-ending-school-corporal-punishment-2\/\">ending corporal punishment in schools.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-4\" style=\"background: transparent  \">\n\t<div class=\"feature-box text-center media-box \">\n    <div class=\"fbox-media\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dsengeh\/status\/1652993239786434563?s=12&#038;t=v2YPrqcmC55byZkOgYLngg\" target=\"_self\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-no-retina src=\"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sierra-leone-596x567.png\" alt=\"sierra leone\" width=\"596\" height=\"567\" class=\"img-responsive\" \/>\n            <\/a>\n        \t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"fbox-desc\">\n        <h2><\/h2>\n        <span class=\"subtitle\">Sierra Leone Minister of Education David Moinina Sengeh sharing the announcement of the prohibition of corporal punishment on Twitter<\/span>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n                <\/section>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2023, with the enactment of the Basic and Senior Secondary Education Act, 2023, Sierra Leone explicitly prohibited corporal punishment of children in schools.Section 72 (1) of the Basic and Senior Secondary Education Act, 2023 states: \u201ccorporal punishment and all other forms of degrading punishment designed to cause, or create the reasonable fear of, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,30,116,106,33,29,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-english","category-global","category-global-progress","category-news","category-schools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24390"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24510,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24390\/revisions\/24510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endcorporalpunishment.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}