ALL children deserve #safeguarding. Safeguarding is the responsibility of ALL adults in society. ALL adults should be subject to safeguard checks & scrutiny. Objecting to safeguarding enables the abuse & harm of children. Must read @VictoriaPeckham#CSE
The clips we have seen from #cutiesnetflix are appalling. Drawing attention to #CSE should not involve exploiting more children. Talking about ‘child sexuality’ is boundary pushing. Anybody defending this as an unsuitable person to be working with children
We have repeatedly raised concerns about unregulated groups, who clearly do not understand the importance of #safeguarding seeking access to vulnerable children. Being #LGBT does not exempt you from scrutiny. ALL children should be kept safe #edutwitter
5. We see that @stonewalluk & @NSPCC are now collaborating on child #safeguarding. Many concerns have been raised about both these organisations understanding of safeguarding on a number of occasions by a number of people/organisations. #pastoralchat#LGBT
We originally raised concerns re @NSPCC’s appointment of Bergdorf here. This eventually lead to frightening revelations about their ‘Celebrity and Talent Officer‘ #JamesMakings, who’s inappropriate behaviour was defended by several @guardian journalists.
We have also raised concerns regarding @PeterTatchell & his continuing efforts to involve himself in #RSE. His on record statements have repeatedly conflated paedophilia & #LGBT, which is enormously damaging. Many of our supporters are Lesbian, Gay or Bi.
Safe Schools Alliance campaigns for ALL children (under 18’s) to be safeguarded. Every child has the right to a childhood & to be kept safe. This is regardless of their age, ability, disability, #SEN, Sex, race, religion, if they have questions around gender or sexual orientation
...their family circumstances or set up, if they have already become parents themselves or if they are in care. ALL adults seeking contact with children should adhere to established safeguarding frameworks & be subject to the same level of scrutiny, regardless of age, disability
...gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy, race, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation. Anybody arguing against this is demonstrating their unsuitability to be near children or policy that affects them. #safeguarding is for ALL or it protects NONE. #edutwitter#LGBT
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“The awards cut across every aspect of the operation of the school...advising teachers to “introduce yourself at the start of the year using your pronouns and encourage students to do the same.”
This is compelled speech. #Teachers contact your unions.
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earlier this week Stonewall CEO @Nancy_M_K claimed: “one of the things that’s really important to say is that we don’t advocate for the removal of the single sex exemptions.” ‘
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Yet more ‘historic’ child #safeguarding failures. But are these historic? Or are the same failings still happening today? Does everybody who has concerns always raise them? Or in another 20 yrs time will we be listening to excuses from people who..
have concerns RIGHT NOW but are failing to raise them? Are we learning our lessons? Are we listening? Or do we continue to vilify those who raise concerns? Do we as adults accept our responsibility to safeguard all children? Do we really understand the mantra ‘You never...
know anyone well enough to say they couldn’t, wouldn’t or didn’t’? Or do we continue to ignore our instincts, excuse friends, family, colleagues, pillars of the community, to the detriment of children? Do we fulfil our duty to #SpeakOut? Or do we continue to allow ourselves...
It is an important case to follow for any #schools & #teachers working with Stonewall. The CPS ‘hate crimes’ schools pack, produced in conjunction with #Stonewall has now been permanently withdrawn, but the judicial review of the relationship between CPS...
Ben Cooper trying to establish communications between individuals at Stonewall & individuals at Garden Court Chambers. Arguing names of individuals is relevant and they put in public domain.
The @CareQualityComm inspection report which found @TaviAndPort#GIDS service to be ‘inadequate’ is a truly shocking read. We are appalled at the spin that this is just about waiting times. It is not. This is a #safeguarding scandal. Full report here:
Questions must be asked (and answered) about why so many children were experiencing distress around gender in the first place. What has gone wrong in our society? Why are we failing to challenge gender stereotypes? What are children looking at online?
The regulatory capture in our society has gone so far that even the @CareQualityComm report into this scandal uses highly contested, ideological language such as ‘assigned sex at birth’. This must stop. Sex is observed at birth, usually by medical professionals.