Author: Plan/ODI
Published: October 2010
File size: 1.3 mb
Number of pages: 11

This report reveals the enormous economic and social cost of violence in schools across the world.

Key findings of the research include:

• the total cost of school violence in social benefits lost (in just 13 countries for which information is available) equates to almost US$60 billion
• violence leads to truancy, lower educational attainment and thus lower level jobs
• no country is immune to violence in schools but the cost to poorer families is disproportionately high, affecting their ability to escape the poverty trap.

and links to Plan’s Learn Without Fear programme work.

Plan argues that governments will save money in the long run if they invest now in preventing violence in schools and is calling for urgent action.

Join Plan’s Learn Without Fear campaign.