Interdisciplinary cooperation in child care
The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Welfare (MoLISA) on October 9 signed a plan on cooperation in child protection, care and education until 2020.
The plan is targeted towards effective implementation of the goals of building a safe and friendly environment that provides equal education and development opportunities for all children.
It outlines numerous tasks including revising legal documents in the field; building an interdisciplinary cooperation framework at all levels; and improving educators’ capacity for protecting, caring and educating children.
A workshop was also held on the same day to review the implementation of child protection, care and education at schools in the 2010-2013 period as well as the current health and nutrition situation of school children.
According to MoET’s Student Affairs Department, the ministry will continue developing the school system, encouraging children to go to school and improving learning quality at all education levels.
The focus will be on poor and ethnic minority areas with the aim of building 93,000 new classrooms and 23,140 teachers’ rooms at a total cost of over VND32 trillion (US$1.5 trillion).