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There are a lot of prominent opinions being put out there on rape culture and schools, but the views of school staff sadly haven't had as much airtime (1/14)
That's a real problem, because teachers, heads and support staff probably know more about the realities of this than MPs or newspaper columnists (apologies to MPs/columnists).
And teachers â as well as students â seem to be suffering https://www.tes.com/news/one-five-teachers-has-been-sexually-harassed-survey-says (2/14)
And teachers â as well as students â seem to be suffering https://www.tes.com/news/one-five-teachers-has-been-sexually-harassed-survey-says (2/14)
SO: Weâre asking teachers, heads and support staff to have their say on this really important issue by filling in this anonymous survey https://www.tes.com/news/school-sex-abuse-controversy-have-your-say (3/14)
Just to recap, this really kicked off after the Everyoneâs Invited forum allowed thousands of people to share their stories of peer-on-peer sexual abuse (4/14) https://www.tes.com/news/everyone%27s-invited-sex-abuse-state-schools-also-included-rape-culture-reports
In one of our most-read articles this month, teacher @sezl delved into the allegations being made and came away with âimmense sadness at how depressingly familiar these stories areâ. (5/14) https://www.tes.com/news/i-wish-i-could-say-rape-culture-didnt-exist-i-cant
Some solutions were suggested: Ofstedâs deputy director of unregistered and independent schools, told MPs sexual abuse and harassment have âno placeâ in education and allegations should be âdealt with firmlyâ (6/14) https://www.tes.com/news/schools-sex-abuse-deal-school-rape-culture-firmly-says-ofsted
Childrenâs commissioner @Rachel_deSouza called for a greater focus from Ofsted on school safeguarding and suggested the watchdog should inspect more private schools (7/14) https://www.tes.com/news/everyone%27s-invited-rape-culture-childrens-tsar-wants-ofsted-focus
But leading figures in the private school sector said that it wasnât necessary for all independent schools to be inspected by @Ofstednews (8/14) https://www.tes.com/news/child-abuse-rape-culture-no-need-ofsted-say-private-schools
Meanwhile, @isc_schools chair @barnabylenon has said he would be âperfectly happyâ for an independent inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse among pupils to be carried out (9/14) https://www.tes.com/news/everyone%27s-invited-private-schools-chief-backs-rape-culture-inquiry
And the DfE asked Ofsted to launch an "immediate" review into sexual abuse in schools. (10/14) https://www.tes.com/news/everyone%27s-invited-government-launches-review-school-sexual-abuse
This will involve visits to schools where cases have been highlighted, the watchdog said (11/14) https://www.tes.com/news/everyone%27s-invited-ofsted-visit-schools-centre-sex-abuse-scandal
Then, last week, the DfE announced that ÂŁ750K would be spent on anti-bullying measures, including that of a "sexual" or "sexist" nature (12/14) https://www.tes.com/news/everyone%27s-invited-sex-abuse-ps750k-scheme-target-sexual-bullying-schools
But, professor of education @ian_rivers questioned what impact this would have on rape culture (13/14) https://www.tes.com/news/will-governments-ps750k-crackdown-rape-culture-work
Whatever comes out of all of this will directly anyone working in schools
If youâd like to have your say, here's that link to our anonymous survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/XJY8Z5D (ends)
If youâd like to have your say, here's that link to our anonymous survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/XJY8Z5D (ends)
