Sexual harassment is the norm for almost all young people in England’s schools and colleges yet teachers have done little to tackle it, an official assessment conducted in response to an online campaign against such abuse has found.
Education inspectorate Ofsted said on Thursday that schools had to improve sex education and teacher training to counter the “cultural issue” of harassment and violence that children face regularly from fellow pupils.
The government commissioned the report following widespread publicity in March of revelations on Everyone’s Invited, an online forum in which young people shared experiences of abuse anonymously.