ISSN: 2782-893X
eISSN: 2799-0664
ISSN: 2782- 893X
—— This research sought to assess implementation of child protection policy and its best practices in Magalang North District during the School Year 2024-2025 to have a proposed action plan. The study utilized mixed method design as a guide for the completion of the study. In this particular study, a sequential-explanatory design was applied in conjunction with a mixed method approach. There were 16 school heads, 80 PTAS and 149 teachers who became the respondents of the study. There were 10 participants in qualitative part. Weighted mean, anova and thematic analysis were used for interpretation. Results tell that school heads, teachers and PTAs gave a great extent implementation on preventive measures to address child abuse (M=3.00, M=2.98, M=2.93), addressing exploitation (M=3.16, M=3.20, M=3.14). In addition, addressing violence is rated as very great extent by school heads (M=3.30), teachers (M=3.31) and great extent by PTAs (M=3.17). Also, preventing discrimination and bullying is rated as very great extent by school heads (M=3.36), teachers (M=3.38) and PTAs (M=3.30). The difference on assessment of implementation of the child protection policy of the three groups of respondents including school heads, teachers and PTAs has an F value of 1.4347 and p value of 0.0412. Tapping Pupil-Leaders as In-Charge of Discipline and Improving Visibility on Hard to Reach Areas are the best practices of school in implementing child protection policy. An action plan is proposed based on the findings of the study. Keywords: child protection, discrimination, action plan, discipline