Schools ‘do not react to sex attacks properly’

School authorities often react “in inappropriate ways” to incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault of pupils, rape crisis groups have claimed.

The comments follow a survey of college students which found that consent regarding sex was a “grey area”, hampered by an inability to talk about sex and ignorance of what constituted sexual assault.

Rape Crisis Network Ireland said these students left post-primary school unprepared, leaving them vulnerable to sexual violence.