She says she was shocked to learn that her concerns were not new, they had been raised by many others for many years
Dr Taylor: "If u try to set out to please or comply w someone, as a parent or clinician, then u wont be helping them. Its v important that u keep an independent perspective but I do think that maybe the service as it developed, to some extent, lost its compass in those respects."
"Many patients would have been better served referred to other services, but underfunding of child and adolescent mental health services made that impossible" says Dr Taylor
He welcomes the forthcoming Cass review of GIDS - "a more public arena for the kind of discussions and debate that we are talking about can go on"
GIDS response: "This report from 2006 is not relevant to the circumstances & issues faced by the GIDS service today.
While the demand for the GIDS service has increased markedly from 2006 each young person does receive a highly personalised service from GIDS colleagues
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This is not the only topic where university VCs have not defended academic freedom strongly enough, but it is a very good demonstration of the problem.
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Prof @Docstockk was hounded out of @SussexUni
She has been waiting for 3 years for the results of an @officestudents investigation
On March 13 2024 I made a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office about Master McCloud, a serving judge who has been engaging publicly and inappropriately in debates on sex and gender.