Fundesplai values positively the protocol approved by the Procicat committee for the prevention of Covid-19 in extracurricular activities, camps and day trips.
The committee that makes up the Civil Protection Plan of Catalonia (Procicat) approved on October 5 a document to regulate extracurricular activities, camps and school trips within the framework of Covid-19 prevention actions. Among the specifications is the fact that a daily record must be kept of the attendance of girls and boys to the stable groups of activities and maintained for at least one month.
Among the measures for extracurricular activitiesThe following are highlighted: prioritizing outdoor activities whenever possible, the aforementioned daily record of all participants (children and monitors) to be kept for at least one month, the maintenance of the interpersonal safety distance of 1.5 meters, the use of masks from 6 years of age (except when incompatible with sports activities), the use of masks in musical classes with wind instruments or due to medical contraindication, maintaining the use of changing rooms only for children and young people of the same stable group, and prohibiting the attendance of the public at educational events, in musical classes with wind instruments or by medical contraindication), maintaining the use of the changing rooms simultaneously only for children and young people of the same stable group and prohibiting the attendance of the public to the events of the educational centers (matches, exhibitions…)…).
As for theschool camps and outings, they must be organized in stable groups of coexistence, which must coincide with the groups defined by the school activity.
Whether with or without accommodation, students from different centers may be housed together in the same facility, as long as the coexistence groups and the safety distance are respected.
Valuation of Fundesplai
Froilan Salgado, assistant to the General Management of Fundesplai, values very positively that the new regulation has been published and adds: “it reinforces and underlines the educational (and social) importance of extracurricular activities and school camps and outings”.
Salagado continues: “It also helps to give confidence to families, schools and organizing entities in this context of so much uncertainty. We note that in many respects this regulation is based on (and gives continuity to) the one already implemented for this summer and which served to ensure that the camps and summer camps were held with great success.”
Finally, the deputy to the General Directorate, recalls that the summer camps and summer camps were the tip of the spear of the resocialization of children after confinement and that, only the activities organized by Fundesplai had more than 35,000 participants with only 11 positive cases (a very low percentage).