The education of the children of CGS has mainly been entrusted to the hands of the members of the schools. This places a school member, whatever their role, in a unique position of responsibility, which requires an exceptionally high standard of behavior and conduct. To help arrest any unfortunate development, Central Gospel School (CGS) was established by the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) to provide overall supervision of the schools based in the local assemblies to ensure they are operating within the educational standards of ICGC. These schools are named Central Gospel School (CGS).

As articulated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), ratified by Ghana in 1990, and the Children's Act of 1998 (Act 560), children in Ghana have a right to education. They should be free from being subjected to harmful or degrading punishment, violence, or exploitative labor that denies the child their right to education. As duty bearers and members of Central Gospel School (CGS), teachers are responsible for upholding and protecting children's rights.

Central Gospel School (CGS) accepts this responsibility and pledges always to seek to maintain the highest standard of competence and good behavior.

To this end, Central Gospel School (CGS) finds it necessary to codify certain norms that help it achieve this high standard of competence and good behavior.

This Code of Conduct has been drawn up for the guidance of the teachers and staff of Central Gospel School (CGS), including those engaged in administration, teaching, and other supporting services in performing their duties.

This Code provides a frame of reference for members of CGS when it becomes necessary to initiate disciplinary action against erring members.

This Code of Conduct should not be viewed primarily as imposing sanctions but also designed to emphasize and encourage improvements in individual conduct.

The rules and regulations in this Code should not be regarded merely as a catalog of offenses and penalties or negatively as constituting restraint on members' freedom. They are meant to ensure that the conditions for effective teaching and learning are created and maintained in the church's educational institutions and to inspire public confidence in teachers entrusted with school-going children's physical, mental, moral, religious, and spiritual upbringing.

Since the Code constitutes rules for regulating the conduct of teachers and staff in and outside the classroom, it has been reviewed to follow modern trends to incorporate School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV).

In this document, School-Related Gender-Based Violence refers to all forms of violence perpetrated against school-going girls and boys. It includes any form of violence based on gendered stereotypes or targeting students based on sex. It has but is not limited to bullying, corporal punishment, verbal harassment, sexual comments, sexual touching, defilement, and rape. Violence can occur in the school, on the grounds, going to and from school, or in school dormitories and may be perpetrated by teachers, staff, students, or community members. Both girls and boys can be victims as well as perpetrators. Such violence can affect the well-being of students, putting them at greater risk of educational failure through absenteeism, dropping out, and lack of motivation for academic achievement. It also impacts their mental and physical health, resulting in bodily injury, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (including HIV/AIDS), or emotional/psychological ill-health.

The Code also includes guidelines on the appropriate response to allegations by pupils/students of SRGBV, whether by teachers or fellow pupils/students.

Includes sections relating to the accessible school procedure by which pupils/students can make confidential complaints, the prompt and effective investigation of such complaints appropriate method for reporting.

Labor is exploitative of a pupil/student if it deprives them of education, leisure, or development. Therefore.

1. No teacher shall subject a pupil/student to exploitative labor.
2. A teacher shall not use the labor of a pupil/student in any form whatsoever, with or without the parent's consent, during contact hours.
3. A teacher shall not send a child on errands for them during contact hours.
4. No teacher shall use the labor of school children/students for private or personal service with or without the consent of their parents or guardians and the school head during school hours.
5. The exploitative activities that teachers shall not engage pupils/students in shall include but not be limited to buying, selling, or trading items, weeding, farming, carrying water, sand, stone, and blocks, or doing household chores.

1. Physical harm inflicted on pupils/students constitutes a gross violation of the child's rights. Consequently:
2. Teachers shall not administer corporal punishment or any act that inflicts physical pain on the children or causes bodily harm to their pupils/students, such as pushing, pulling, hitting, and flogging.
3. No teacher shall subject their pupils/students to painful body postures such as frog jumping, standing in the sun, holding heavy loads on outstretched hands, etc.
4. No teacher shall punish a child for working outside the classroom during contact hours.
5. No teacher shall intentionally or unintentionally cause harm to any pupil/student.
6. A teacher shall not threaten any pupil/student with harm with intent to put that person in fear of injury.
7. No teacher shall assault any pupil/student.
8. A teacher shall not subject a pupil/student to or encourage other pupils/students to subject a pupil/student to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, including any cultural practice that dehumanizes or is harmful to the physical and mental well-being of the pupil/student.
9. A teacher shall intervene to stop a pupil/student from perpetrating physical violence or abuse upon another pupil/student.
10. A teacher shall intervene to stop a fellow teacher from perpetrating physical violence or abuse upon another pupil/student.
11. No correction of a pupil/student is justifiable that is unreasonable or in degree according to the age, the physical and mental condition of the pupil/student, and if the child, because of tender age or otherwise, is incapable of understanding the purpose of the correction.

1. No teacher's act shall have a negative psychological effect on a school child. Therefore, no teacher in the course of duty shall intimidate, insult, tease, harass, threaten, snub, or discriminate against any child.
2. Teachers shall not use the physical challenges of children to intimidate or ridicule them.
3. Teachers shall not use any acts or mean to pester or coerce children into activities of which they do not have a clear understanding.
4. No teacher shall deliberately isolate or ignore any child.
5. The teacher shall advise against early marriage and support children in continuing their education.
6. No teacher shall emotionally manipulate a child to the teacher's advantage.
7. No teacher shall send a child out of class for absenteeism, lateness, or fees.
8. Teachers shall show utmost consideration for the feelings and circumstances of learners.
9. The teacher shall control their utterances to not threaten with cruel and degrading punishment or hurt the pupil/student.
10. A teacher will intervene to stop a pupil/student from perpetrating psychological abuse upon another pupil/student.
11. A teacher shall intervene to stop a fellow teacher from perpetrating psychological abuse upon another pupil/student.

1. No teacher shall directly or indirectly do anything that may constitute sexual harassment of a pupil/student. All acts of gay and lesbian rape are strictly prohibited.
2. Any teacher who has carnal knowledge of any female or male pupil/student of any age, with or without his or her consent, shall be guilty of professional misconduct.
3. No teacher shall compel any female or male pupil/student in his or her school or any educational institution to marry him or her with or without the consent of the child's parents.
4. No teacher shall have carnal knowledge of any pupil/student in their school or any educational institution with or without their consent.
5. No teacher shall serve as a go-between or knowingly suffer any female or male pupil/student in his/her school or any other educational institution to resort to or be in or upon a premise for carnal knowledge by any person or by himself/herself.
6. No teacher shall cause or encourage the seduction, carnal knowledge, prostitution, or commission of an indecent assault upon a pupil/student.
7. No teacher shall detain any pupil/student for immoral purposes.
8. No teacher shall, by pretenses or false representation, procure any pupil/student to have any carnal knowledge with them.
9. A teacher shall not apply or administer to or cause to be taken by any pupil/student any illegal drugs, matter, or thing with intent to stupefy or overpower them to enable the teacher or any person to have carnal knowledge with such pupil/student.
10. No teacher shall publicly or in secret willfully commit any acts of indecency towards any pupil/student.
11. It shall be the responsibility of any teacher who directly or indirectly gets to know of the occurrence of any of these acts to report it to their immediate superior.
12. A teacher shall intervene to stop a pupil/student from perpetrating sexual abuse or violence upon another pupil/student.
13. No teacher shall directly or indirectly instigate, aid, or in any manner facilitate, encourage, or promote, whether by his acts or presence or otherwise, any of the actions mentioned earlier.

No teacher shall discriminate against a pupil/student based on sex, race, age, religion, disability, health status, custom, ethnic origin, background, socio-economic status, or misunderstanding with a parent or guardian.

1. No teacher shall detain a pupil/student after school as punishment without supervision.
2. No teacher shall deprive a pupil/student of the right to participate in sports or other leisure activities as punishment.

No teacher shall do anything that suggests or creates the impression that a pupil/student is more favored than any other pupil/student.

No teacher shall show inordinate affection to any pupil/student. Inordinate ..affection implies the expression of love or likeness with an ulterior motive.

1. Teachers shall serve as role models to learners showing a high degree of decency in speech, mannerisms, discipline, dressing, and general performance of their roles.
2. Teachers shall dress to portray the dignity of the profession.

Teachers shall not use their positions to spread their political, religious, or other ideologies among pupils/students.

1. No teacher may leave the school during school hours without the permission of the head of the institution.
2. A teacher leaving the school for duty elsewhere shall inform their head of their whereabouts to facilitate their recall in an emergency.
3. A teacher shall not be absent from work for ill health without permission from their head and subsequent submission of a medical certificate from a certified medical practitioner if they have to be absent for more than five (5) working days.
4. A teacher shall not absent themself from assigned work without permission.
5. It is misconduct for a teacher to be absent from duty continuously for one (1) or more days without permission, reasonable excuse, or cause.
6. A teacher who absences themself from duty continuously for ten (10) days or more shall be deemed to have vacated post.
7. No teacher shall leave Ghana without written permission from the Director of Education of Central Gospel School (CGS).