AQW 25566/22-27

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 03/04/2025
Answered On Date: 09/04/2025
Priority Written: No

Question:
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.

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.