How can schools do better to protect our young people from sexual harassment and sexual abuse?
Last week Ofsted published their rapid thematic Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges, including online sexual abuse. Incidents are so commonplace that [students] see no point in reporting them!
An issue for everyone!
Earlier this year, the website Everyone’s Invited exposed 16,000+ allegations of rape culture of harassment and abuse in our schools. The vast majority of testimonials were from females, with a tenth of all England's schools and colleges being named (approximately 2,500),
Excellent article Ross. I a am big believer that online influences have a big role to play here. Yes schools have a role to play but I wish Ofsted had been braver and called on mums and dads to do more. These things do start at home and I can’t help feeling education settings are being called on to fix a much wider problem.