Media reports
- School sex crime reports in UK top 5,500 in three years (BBC Sept 2015)
- Revealed: catalogue of sexual assault and misogyny in Scottish classrooms (The Herald Aug 2016)
- Most girls have been sexually harassed at school, study finds (The Tines Dec 2016)
- New report reveals schools ignoring sexual harassment can be sued by girls
- Sexual Harassment of girls in schools. Video retelling of harrowing accounts by Katie Horsburgh (YouTube Feb 2017)
- Scotland’s young girls hit by epidemic of cybersex crime (The Herald Sept 2017)
- Is enough being done to tackle sexual harassment in schools? (Guardian Oct 2017)
- Child-on-child sex offence reports ‘tip of the iceberg’ (BBC Oct 2017)
- ‘Steep rise’ in self-harm among teenage girls (BBC Oct 2017)
- Revealed: the scandal of sexual harassment in Scottish schools (The Herald Nov 2017)
- Sexual harassment: It’s not only rife in showbiz and Westminster – it’s in UK schools (Guardian Nov 2017)
- Sexual harassment: how the genders and generations see the issue differently (YouGov Nov 2017)
- MPs told of school rape and sexual harassment (BBC Nov 2017)
- Schools told not to dismiss sexual harassment ‘as banter’ (BBC Dec 2017)
- New survey by Girlguiding finds high levels of sexual harassment in schools
- Over a third of girls ‘experience sexual harassment at school’ (Evening Standard Dec 2017)
- Sexual harassment ‘normal’ in schools, warns report (Tes Dec 2017)
- Sexual harassment ‘rife’ in schools but largely unreported, study says (Guardian Dec 2017)
- Scotland has experienced an increase in cyber sex crime with the majority of victims being children under the age of 16 (Scotsman Mar 2018)
- Fifth of 14-year-old girls in UK ‘have self-harmed’ (BBC Aug 2018)
- Hospital admissions for teenage girls who self-harm nearly double (Guardian Aug 2018)
- Teenage girls more likely to self-harm than boys (BMJ)
- Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria (Lisa Littman Aug 2018)
- One in three girls sexually harassed in public while wearing school uniforms, report finds (Independent Oct 2018)
Government Inquiry
UK W&E Sexual harassment and sexual violence in schools Inquiry 2016
EHRiC Bullying and Harassment of children and Young people in schools Inquiry 2017
Evidence submissions
- Girlguiding Scotland
- Engender
- Educational Institute of Scotland
- Rape Crisis Scotland
- Children in Scotland
Reports and Guidance
- It is not Cool to be Cruel (EHRiC 2017)
- Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges (DoE May 2018)
- Young Women Lead
Training Courses and Workshop
Major national campaign to challenge sexual harassment and sexism – launch date unknown
2018-2019 Program for Government stated it would be include in the coming year
Christina McKelvie told Equalities and Human Rights Committee of the upcoming campaign ‘early in the new year, I will launch a sexual harassment and sexism public awareness campaign, a specific strand of which is on children.‘
2019-2020 Program for Government repeated its promise of a major national campaign
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