Started in 2004
To support school in designing this specific policy, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, set up in November 2004 a Center for School and Safety at the APS (Dutch National Centre for School Improvement).

Practical information
This Centre for School and Safety gives current and practical information through their website, www.schoolenveiligheid.nl. This website is filled with tools and good practices, information and links to experts on safety. It also informs the website-visitor on school safety in a larger context: from control of weapons to student mediation.

Other safety projects
The homepage of Centre for School and Safety also gives access to other specialist safety projects of the Dutch National Centre of School Improvement, for example, the ‘PPSI’-project which stands for Project for the Prevention of Sexual Intimidation in an educational contaxt, Gay- and -School and Pestweb which includes information on school bullying.