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<p>Sexual relationships between instructors and trainees have no place in Defence,
or wider society, and the MOD’s zero tolerance approach ensures our commitment to
providing a better working environment for our Serving personnel is met.</p><p> </p><p>Fewer
than ten staff at Army Foundation College Harrogate were found to have had inappropriate
relationships with recruits since 2014. Due to the very small number, this will not
be broken down further.</p><p> </p><ol><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest
ten. Rounding is used to preserve anonymity.</li><li>JPA is a live system which is
updated for retrospective complaints/allegations and therefore data can be subject
to change.</li><li>These figures are single Service estimates only and are not official
statistics produced by Defence Statistics.</li><li>There is no defined criteria for
‘intimate relationships’ or for ‘otherwise inappropriate relationships’. The figure
above is based on a search for cases where there was found to have been an abuse of
a position of trust at AFC Harrogate which had a sexual nature to it.</li></ol><p>
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