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Ofsted has announced plans for a review into safeguarding policies and practices at state and independent schools following concerns about widespread sexual abuse.   The review - which should be completed by the end of May - will establish what current safeguarding guidance is place in schools and colleges and whether it is sufficient to allow them to 'respond effectively' to allegations.  It will also examine whether institutions need extra support in teaching students about sex and relationships, and whether current inspection regimes are 'robust enough' around the issue of sexual abuse....

Boys at private schools embroiled in the sex abuse scandal are having to change out of uniform to avoid street attacks and verbal abuse, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Current male pupils also fear including their school name on CVs in case they are turned away by potential employers because of the negative associations. Others – aged as young as 13 – have faced abuse from members of the public and have been branded rapists in the street, prompting some to change out of uniform for journeys to and from school. Pupils staged a protest against rape culture at Highgate School in London on Ma...

UK’s elite schools face a reckoning on rape culture Nine years after being assaulted by a boy she alleges was a student at Eton College, Zan Moon can still remember the moment as if it was yesterday. “I can picture the hallway where it happened, his hands around my neck choking me,” she says. “Then he put his hands down my pants… It was painful. I told him to stop.” Moon says the five-hour attack took place outside of school in a secluded cottage on England’s South Coast, rented for the weekend by a friend at the elite girls’ boarding school she attended: Benenden. She was 15 ...

The editor of the Good Schools Guide has said private schools must take responsibility for boys' behaviour outside the classroom because they market themselves on their skill at developing a child's character.   Melanie Sanderson said the schools should remember their marketing materials and talks for parents often boast of the work they do to create well-rounded individuals amid the growing fallout from the schools sex scandal.  It comes after more than 10,000 harrowing reports of alleged sexual assault were posted on website Everyone's Invited, where students can anonymously share thei...

Your Thursday Briefing April 1, 2021, 12:47 a.m. ET Image Women call out ‘rape culture’ in U.K. schools After weeks of harrowing anonymous accounts of sexual violence, sexism and misogyny at schools on a platform called Everyone’s Invited, local and national officials in Britain have begun investigations. On Wednesday, the government said an education body would conduct an immediate review of policies safeguarding students at both public and private schools. It comes amid a broader reckoning in Britain after the killing of Sarah Everard, whose abduction from a London street last month s...