Last week, the Evening Standard revealed the extent to which sexual harassment has become a daily occurrence for many schoolgirls, with inappropriate images of students being shared and a toxic culture in which girls are “subservient” wreaking a severe impact on the psyches of young men and women. This cannot be left to fester.
And so today, this newspaper launches our Show Respect campaign, an initiative to tackle violence against girls. We will do this by funding workshops on healthy relationships, following the evidence as to what works and drawing down £500,000 from the Standard’s Dispossessed Fund to begin with. This money will support charities to deliver workshops to 13 and 14-year-old boys and girls.
