A poll carried out for global children’s charity Plan UK found that 22 per cent of women aged 18 and over had experienced sexual touching, groping, flashing, sexual assault or rape in UK schools in the past 70 years.
Out of more than 2,000 women surveyed, 10 per cent said the abuse had occurred “sometimes” or “frequently”.
Three in five (61 per cent) of those who had experienced abuse said they had never reported it to a teacher or anyone else in authority.
“Our findings show that schoolgirls have been suffering in silence for decades,” said Tanya Barron, chief executive of Plan UK.
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