This article covers ways to reduce the risk of child-on-child sexual abuse occurring in your school. Read our article on responding to incidents of child-on-child sexual abuse if you need to deal with an incident right now.
Find out more about how to prevent all forms of child-on-child abuse in our other article.
Understand the definitions
Sexual abuse in all its forms is something you'll need to examine and address in your school.
Child-on-child abuse, including child-on-child sexual abuse is covered in depth in Keeping Children Safe In Education (KCSIE). All staff need to know how to identify and respond to it as soon as it occurs.
Child-on-child sexual abuse
Abuse in intimate personal relationships between children (this is sometimes known as 'teenage relationship abuse') Sexual violence Sexual harassment Upskirting, which involves taking a picture under a person’s clothing without their permission, to obtain sexual gratification or cause the victim humiliation, distress or