The normalisation of porn and the rise of sexting and revenge porn among teenagers has led to calls for a more robust response in schools.
It must be phased out as existing contracts come to their end and gradually replaced by a more robust model for all schools, such as that of the maintained trust school introduced by the Labour government in 2006.
That means a massive aid effort, focused on more robust housing, hospitals and schools.
This would be more robust than simply hoping that schools – with all their other budget pressures and league-table incentives to focus on the more academically able students – use the money where it is intended.
For example, law schools today use relatively simple methods for student assessment (mainly final exams), and there are reasons to believe schools need more robust systems.
"We had lost a number of fellows who wanted to go to AFI to schools with more robust scholarship programs," said Bob Gazzale, the CEO of AFI. .
Schools could use more robust research into this field, commissioned by the NHS to better understand the real needs of the school community, and a requirement that only trained professionals be allowed to work with pupils and staff in this misunderstood field.
There should probably be more robust computer education in U.S. public schools, so as to raise the next generation of netizens to know not to reply to e-mails promising "FREE IPAD CLICK HERE".
The NfER, an education think tank, performed an analysis of 2013 exam results which "appears to show more progress among converter academies than all non-academy schools", but "a more robust longitudinal analysis shows no significant difference in attainment progress over two years".
In the case of the young school-age boy, more robust QI-related education during staff training, and regular staff competence review in our hospital could have identified and addressed many of the issues that resulted in this boy's death.
