Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE)– Ane Vernon for Independent Education Today

Last year, the forum Everyone’s Invited, an online platform on which experiences of ‘rape culture’ could be shared anonymously, sparked shockwaves following a torrent of unreported rapes, sexual attacks, harassment and intimidation occurring in schools and colleges and between children.  Some of the most prestigious independent schools in the country were suddenly in the spotlight, for reasons they would have preferred to avoid.