The “Self-assessment of integral security in education centres” project, presented as part of the call for subsidies for undertaking research, study and analysis projects regarding security in Catalonia (ISPC 2009), arose with the objective of producing and validating a model and instrument for the self-assessment of integral security in education centres, the aim being to respond to the requirements for the management of integral security in such institutions.
The project’s approach is based on the results of the research project on “Security in educational centres in Catalonia” (2009) conducted by the EDO Group with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Generalitat de Catalunya, as well as the study “Integral security in compulsory education centres in Spain” (2010), financed by the Fundación Mapfre.
The study was possible thanks to the configuration of a multidisciplinary team of experts in the area of security and the area of didactics and organisation, for this enabled an approach to the issue of security from the perspective of different disciplines that necessarily complement each other when it comes to guaranteeing the security of children and other people that commonly or sporadically frequent education centres.
Fruit of the research undertaken, the “EDURISC Self-Assessment Questionnaire” was designed, a self-assessment instrument that can be accessed via the internet and helps education centres to understand what main risks affect them, and thus diagnose their level of integral security and provide them with sufficient elements to initiate contextualised actions designed to improve their security levels.
The general objective of the project: To produce and evaluate a model and instruments for the self-assessment of the management of integral security in education centres; which is manifested in what are specified below as specific objectives:
- To make operative the variables and indicators that configure an integral security model for education centres.
- To design a self-assessment instrument for integral security.
- To validate an instrument and its application to education centres by means of experts.
- To delimitate a guide to the use and application of the self-assessment model for integral security.
- To digitalise the model and its application process.
- To verify the validity and usefulness of the IT application.
- To produce a decalogue of specific measures to encourage the application of the model.
- To derive proposals for the improvement of integral security in education centres on the basis of the conclusions drawn from the study.