Bicol’s Regional Development Council urges congressmen from the
region to help push the swift passage of a bill banning all forms
of corporal punishment of children and institutionalizing positive
developments to counter the ill-effects of punishment.
The
Social Development Committee (SDC) of the RDC has earlier expressed
its support for the bill authored by Congresswoman Monica Teodoro,
which seeks to provide interventions by welfare officers for abused
children, including psycho-social interventions, protective
custody, temporary placement of the child, medical and legal
services as well as seminars on children’s rights and counseling.
Under the bill, the DSWD shall formulate a comprehensive program to
prevent corporal punishment of children in coordination with other
government organizations and parent-teachers associations.
Copies of the RDC’s resolution of support were furnished to the
Bicolano Congressmen, to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, as well as to the Committee on the Revision of
Laws.
