AQW 25566/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Education
To ask the Minister of Education whether guidance has been issued to schools on how to deal with incidents of peer-on-peer sexual abuse, including online abuse.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 3 April 2025
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 3 April 2025
- Answer due by
- 18 April 2025
- Answered
- 9 April 20256 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Education
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My department’s Safeguarding and Child Protection in Schools – A Guide for Schools and its associated Circular 2022/02 - Children Who Display Harmful Sexual Behaviour have been issued to educational settings to provide advice as to how these matters should be addressed.