A study of safeguarding policies relating to student-on-student sexual abuse in schools in light of the accounts of those who experienced it

在英国，学校和大学学生之间的性虐待和性骚扰已经变得突出，部分原因是第一手叙述产生的公众意识不断提高，包括每个人的邀请（everyonesinvited.uk）（弗格森，2021;每个人的邀请，2020）。围绕保护儿童的讨论往往淡化他们的声音和经历，往往会延续有问题的叙述（例如Firmin，2020年和Crofts等人，2015）。《Everyone's Invited》（2020）旨在“激发...关于强奸文化的对话”，我相信这次对话对于为更广泛的讨论（包括政策应对措施）提供信息至关重要。同样重要的是，受害者/幸存者的声音被听到，因此，我的研究将借鉴每个人的邀请作为一个预先存在的，主要的数据来源，以探讨受害者/幸存者对他们的虐待的理解，以及这如何与政策反应和通知。我认为，这可以重新平衡这一领域对受害者/幸存者的忽视，并允许采取一种既反映儿童权利和能动性，又反映儿童成长成熟及其后果的儿童保护办法。我的研究的第一部分将分析来自Everyone's Invited的大约200个账户，让他们为自己说话。它还将确定关键的共同主题。研究的第二部分是对学校安全保障领导进行调查和访谈，并对学校安全保障资料进行分析。我将试图建立第一人称叙事如何与学校反应的主题相关，并为学校反应提供信息。最后，这将是在更广泛的学术，政策和媒体披露的背景下，围绕儿童，虐待和保障，以及这是如何改变的，包括对第一人称叙述的反应。最终目的是提供解决这些问题的新方法。这项研究的大部分重点将放在叙事分析上。因此，我将采用技术，如“小故事”，这是适合研究社交媒体。我将把工作的总体学术框架内的“上下文保障”，并寻求通过布迪厄的不同资本沿着的认识论，旨在了解性别权力动态在日常社会交往的理论。

Sexual abuse and harassment between students in schools and colleges has risen to prominence in the UK spurred, in part, by the increasing public awareness generated by first-hand narrations, including those on Everyone's Invited (everyonesinvited.uk) (Ferguson, 2021; Everyone's Invited, 2020). Discussions around safeguarding of children often downplay their voices and experiences and can often perpetuated problematic narratives (e.g. Firmin, 2020 and Crofts et al., 2015). Everyone's Invited (2020) aims to 'spark... a conversation about rape culture' and I believe it vital for this conversation to inform wider discourse, including policy responses. It is also vital that the voices of the victims/survivors are heard and, herefore, my research will draw on narratives from Everyone's Invited as a pre-existing, primary data source to explore the victims/survivors'understanding of their abuse and how this relates to and informs policy responses. I believe that this can rebalance the neglect of victims/survivors in this area and allow for an approach to child protection that reflects children's rights and agency alongside their developing maturity and its consequences. The first part of my research will analyse around 200 accounts from Everyone's Invited, allowing them to speak for themselves. It will also establish key common themes. The second part of my research will be to survey and interview school safeguarding leads and analyseschools safeguarding material. I will seek to establish how first person narratives relate to the themes of, and have informed, school responses. Finally, this will be set in the context of the wider academic, policy and media disclosure around children, abuse and safeguarding and how this haschanged, including the responses to first person narratives. The ultimate aim is to inform new ways of addressing these issues. The emphasis of much of the study will be on narrative analysis. Therefore, I will adapt techniques, such as 'small stories', which are suitable for studying socialmedia. I will place the work within the overarching academic framework of 'contextual safeguarding' and seek to be informed by Bourdieu's theories of different capital along with epistemologies aimed at understanding gender power dynamics in everyday social interactions.