The research presented an assessment on the extent of compliance and challenges in the implementation of child protection policy in the department of education-national capital region. Specifically, the research directed to (a) identify the classifications and descriptions of reported cases, (b) determine the extent of compliance on child protection policy across schools divisions. likewise, it explored the difference encountered by the CPP committee and its stakeholders. the level of compliance of the selected schools was assessed with (4) indicators: (1) duties and responsibilities of the school in the implementation of the CPP; (2) CPC Funtions; (3) protective and remedial measures of the school; and (4) preventive measures of the school. The data were gathered through survey questionnaire, interviews and focus group discussion in fourteen (14) schools in the National Capital Region. The findings revealed that all schools reported high cases of physical bullying, cyber bullying and neglect from family/relatives due to dysfuntional family. Foremost among the 4 domains, rank 1 is the protective and remedial measures of the school which obtained a weighted mean of 3.5 with an interpretation of high compliance, followed by duties and responsibilities of school in the implementation of CPP, rank 2. in terms of duties and responsibilities of the school, the domains organized and convene the child protection committee (CPC) was rank 1. The gathered data revealed that there is a significant difference in compliance on deped order no. 40, s. 2012 or the child protection policy across schools divisions in the national capital region. the findinga and discussion put forward an overall moderate compliance rate across schools in DepEd-NCR. However, the challenges encountered by the school CPP Committee Members were the following: uncooperative and disengage parents; lack of awareness of parents in their children; lack of collaboration and coordination between and among students and parents; and parents are apathetic with referrals to outside agencies like BADAAC, QAADAC, DSWD, Women's Desk (police station), etc. noteworthy to consider in the challenges stated by the express their fears and feelings to adults, lack of knowledge on CPP, Students' lack of discipline, problems at home affects affects the behavior of the child in school, and bullied students have fear of retaliation from the perpretators/bully.
Lack of guidance counselors/teachers, additional work load for teachers, lack of awareness trainings for teachers and students, time to convene the CPP committee, lack of funds in the implementation of CPP, there is no designed school-based intervention program for both the victim and the offender. there is also confusion on the jurisdiction of handling complaints between prefect of discipline, guidance office or CPP; safety and security of students' protection and make it sure to secure the gate to avoid strangers to enter the gate. 

60 pages : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 21 cm x 29.7 cm.
Research - Department of Education-National Capital Region, 2018