[File, Standard]Ministry of Education officials and representatives of religious organisations are meeting to draft a policy document that will see chaplains deployed in schools. Read MorePresent are senior Ministry of Education staff and representatives of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), National Council of Churches of Kenya, National Association of Christian Chaplains and the pentecostal churches, among other faith-based institutions. “We are getting data from all schools and also analysing practices of chaplains in various faith-based schools with a view of harmonising the same for a common document to be used by all schools,” he said. This will be the second attempt by the government to deploy chaplains in schools. In the initial plan, the church committed to training teachers to provide pastoral care and religious education.

Source: Standard Digital January 25, 2021 18:12 UTC