Comprehensive School Safety: A participatory approach to bushfire emergency management planning in schools

The recently developed UN‐level Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) framework (UNESCO/UNICEF, 2014) provides a detailed and coordinated approach to reducing all hazard risks to the education sector. The CSS provides a guiding framework that can be customised to the Australian school setting to facilitate the development of a participatory approach to bushfire emergency management planning in schools. Within the Australian school  getting there is currently no nationally co‐ordinated approach to the teaching of disaster resilience education (DRE) or the delivery of student centred, participatory disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs.