The start of the new academic year sees the introduction of some important changes to statutory safeguarding guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education.
This means that anyone working with children or vulnerable people will require an update to their training, which school leaders will need to factor into their staff training schedule.
Here are the main changes in the guidance that education professionals need to know about.
Peer-on-peer abuse
The main addition is new guidance on sexual harassment and violence between children, a form of peer-on-peer abuse.
Research by BBC Panorama found that reports of peer-on-peer sexual abuse rose by 71 per cent between 2013 and 2017, and in the past four years, 2,625 sexual offences were committed on school premises, including 225 rapes.
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