SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) workers will be monitoring the school performance of beneficiary children who are enrolled under the new modalities of learning.

Jeffrey Gabucay, who is the 4Ps provincial link in Antique, said in an interview Thursday, workers will be periodically monitoring the status of the learners following the lifting of the “force majeure” declaration through Resolution No. 3 by the 4Ps National Advisory Council (NAC) last September 30.

A force majeure was declared by Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rolando Joselito Bautista last March after the country was placed under the state of public health emergency due to coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

This temporarily suspended some of the activities under the 4Ps in compliance with the recommended health protocols of the Inter-agency Task Force such as non-holding of mass gatherings.

“The periodic or every two months monitoring will be conducted now by the Pantawid workers,” Gabucay said.

He said the monitoring of the enrolled 4Ps beneficiary children will be done by the 46 municipal link and the 21 Social Welfare Assistants in Antique with the Department of Education (DepEd) teachers.

“As of now, we are still gathering the data as to the number of 4Ps children in school,” Gabucay said, adding that they do not have yet the actual number of 4Ps learners considering that enlistment is ongoing.

“Since there is yet no face-to-face classroom instruction, the completion of the beneficiary children of their modules will be the basis of the monitoring,” he said.

Gabucay said the learners should be able to complete 85 percent of the number of modules that were given them by their teachers for each month.

“There will be no more number of days in school required among the beneficiary children since they are not yet being required to physically report,” he said.

Gabucay said 4Ps beneficiary children are encouraged to enroll so that they could receive their educational cash grants.

Beneficiary children enrolled in elementary are given PHP300 per month and those in high school, PHP500 per month.

“Those not attending school will be subject to case management and eventual removal of their grants,” Gabucay said. (PNA)