===The secret is to make sure those in power know that there are rules they must obey, such as not being alone with children ever*......
Of course, you have to be aware of the possibility of false accusations**. mg ===

*This rule is absurd ~ I could never have done my job as Head of Upper School if I had not ignored this advice for 12 years, tho I had been frequently given it thru a 30-yr teaching career. But I suspect I would not get away with that nowadays, which was why, seeing the way things were going, I took early retirement 25 years ago. Glad, from all I hear of today's schools, that I am now well past retirement age, and will never have to go in a school again.

**Oh, have to be 'aware of it', do we? Well that's all right then. & suppose, just for sake of argument, that such an accusation might be made for all one's 'awareness': what about all the suspension, publicity, ostracism, & all the other such exceedingly disagreeable spinoffs, even if accusation eventually shown to be false? Not the least of which will be living all that time with the apprehension that it might not be.

I mean, mg, I am not disagreeing with the main part of your post, which gives an ideal to be followed. But I think there are counter-indicative-factors which might inhibit those actually concerned from following your template of what should be done, which you have skated over a little too glibly.

~Michael~