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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..
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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..
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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...
to be silenced with spurious accusations such as ‘racist’, ‘homophobe’, ‘Pearl clutcher’, ‘man hater’, ‘paranoid’, ‘transphobe’, ‘trouble maker’, ‘prude’, ‘bigot’? Most recently we have seen ‘inclusion’ & ‘all opinions are valid’ used to undermine the #safeguarding of children...
No, not everybody should be included in schools: excluding people who pose a danger to children is the very essence of safer recruitment. Nobody has a ‘right’ to work with children, however children absolutely have a right to be kept safe from those who would do them harm.
Everywhere should be operating a ‘culture of vigilance’ in order to keep children safe. This includes being vigilant to those who attempt to groom you into undermining #safeguarding under the guise of ‘inclusion’. Unless we really wake up & actually learn our lessons this time...
there will be another #SheldonReport in another 20 years time, & another & another. #Safeguarding is the responsibility of all adults & we all must do our duty. If you have a concern about a child or a policy or an adults actions - report it. Don’t think ‘What if I’m wrong’...
think ‘what if I’m right’. Report your concerns, report them to the safeguarding officer, report them to the local safeguarding board, to @Ofstednews if your concerns are not listened to, whistleblow. Report your concerns online to @educationgovuk here:
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It is the responsibility of every adult to safeguard children, we cannot stress this enough. Safer recruitment MUST be used, we know predators will target anywhere children are, we must be alert to this & we must keep them out. The motivations of those wishing to work with...
...children must be questioned. Only those which are found to be suitable should be allowed to do so. Unsuitable people attempting to work with children is not rare, it is far too common & it must be acknowledged & stopped.
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On a daily basis we are sent examples of people who really should understand #safeguarding, completely failing to do so. This includes schools, headteachers, alleged safeguarding organisations, teaching unions, teaching publications, ‘feminist’ orgs, government depts, charities..
PSHE providers, social workers & all manner of professionals. #EnoughIsEnough #safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Everybody must #SpeakUp when they have a concern, we all have a responsibility to enable a culture where people do so.
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