ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how to create and maintain safe environments for children in schools and provides details of what non-violent conflict education is and how to implement it in schools. Common Safety by simplifying its guidance on Health and Safety to schools and introducing a single parental consent form for out of school activities. Even as long ago as fifty years, children were engaging in safety education at school, for example cycling proficiency, road safety, stranger danger and not playing on the railway lines during the holidays. The essence of achieving a safe climate rests on twin factors, the children's own behaviour and expectations, and those of the adults supervising and teaching them. Resolving conflict in a non-violent way using negotiation and compromise is the best way forward for children and young people in order that they keep safe. Non-violent conflict resolution (NVCR) has a long international history.
