Labour’s school improvement teams will be tasked with training older schoolboys to coach younger peers to “recognise and stop” misogyny.
The announcement comes as analysis by the House of Commons Library found a 400 per cent rise in mentions of ‘sexism’, ‘misogyny’, ‘sexual harassment’, ‘sexual abuse’ and ‘safeguarding incident’ in Ofsted reports between 2019 and 2022.
However, the inspectorate has over that period increased its focus on harmful sexual behaviour following the Everyone’s Invited scandal.
Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, will announce plans tomorrow to “end the scourge of sexual harassment by young men influenced by online misogyny”.
