The editor of the Good Schools Guide has said private schools must take responsibility for boys behaviour outside the classroom because they market themselves on their skill at developing a child s character.
Melanie Sanderson said the schools should remember their marketing materials and talks for parents often boast of the work they do to create well-rounded individuals amid the growing fallout from the schools sex scandal.
It comes after more than 10,000 harrowing reports of alleged sexual assault were posted on website Everyone s Invited, where students can anonymously share their experiences of misogyny, harassment, abuse and assault.
Accusations have so far named top public schools including Eton, Hampton and Charterhouse, with both girls and boys among the alleged victims.
AJ Retrofit Awards 2021 winners revealed
with Pearson Lloyd has been named AJ Retrofit of the Year 2021
The conversion of a warehouse in Hackney, east London, not only found a new use for a building that faced demolition but reused as many materials as possible – both from the site and reclamation yards.
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The AJ’s Rob Wilson and Fran Williams, who chaired the various judging panels, said the winning project was ‘notable for having transformed some previously unremarkable and ramshackle commercial structures into a rather poetic and beautiful whole’.
The scheme, which also won the Workplace under 2,000m² category, was revealed as the overall winner at the AJ Retrofit Awards virtual awards event held on Wednesday 24 February.