Welcome to all our new followers! We have just passed 18k. Please look round our website to find out more about us. We are a grassroots group of mainly parents & teachers with no funding, religious or political affiliations. #Edutwitter#Safeguardingsafeschoolsallianceuk.net
Since then we have run many successful campaigns to protect children from inappropriate & politically biased materials, such as this from @BBC_Teach that bizarrely informed children that there were ‘over 100 different genders’ safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2019/09/04/ssa…
We have supported legal action to ensure that unlawful materials from the likes of @CPSUK that misrepresented the law & undermined #safeguarding & the rights of girls are withdrawn. Though sadly many similar materials are still promoted by various LAs. safeschoolsallianceuk.net/legal-action-a…
We have many template letters to assist parents when they find that #safeguarding is not being upheld in schools. Anybody wishing to deny that there are serious safeguarding failures in some schools is revealing themselves as a risk. safeschoolsallianceuk.net/resources-2/le…
We have reviewed many #RSE resources & come to the horrifying conclusion that many, rather than #safeguarding children in fact expose them to risk of harm, especially those already subjected to #CSA. This cannot be allowed to continue. safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2023/03/05/inc…
We have worked, tirelessly, for free, for four years now. Whilst being subjected to various spurious accusations such as ‘anti-RSE’, ‘anti-LGBT’ etc etc. We would really like those making these unfounded remarks to explain exactly what if our aims they disagree with? #Edutwitter
As said, we work for free. If you would like to support us, you can donate here. But really the best way to help is to share our materials, find out what’s going on in your local school & write to your MP. Thank you for all your support #SafeguardingFirstsafeschoolsallianceuk.net/donate/
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None of this is new, we have been raising the alarm for years, as were many individuals & groups before us. Now people who were asked for help years ago are pretending to be shocked at what is going on, while others remain in denial. #Edutwitter#WomenEd
It is steeped in ideological language, it sexualises children, talks inaccuratly about biology, & does not talk about the dangers & reality of porn. It gives an introduction to polyamory and an uncritical mention of surrogacy - we would say it is written by activists not experts.
This image places the penis and vulva on a continuum, showing genitals as ‘variations’. This image perpetuates the myth that is possible to be neither male nor female. It is untrue, ideological, exploitative and will confuse children about biology.
We are struggling to find the words for the despicable lack of #safeguarding these girls were subjected to. It is appalling that their boundaries were so eroded that they accepted this man, this rapist, in their class. What have we done to girls that they…scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-…
accept being told to strip in front of a man as part of a college course? This is widespread societal grooming that anybody has accepted any of this, ever. Did anybody at the college attend their #safeguarding training? Why were they not able to apply it to a real life situation?
Why was it not a massive red flag that a man wanted to attend a course where much younger women were undressing? How on earth did people who should have been safeguard trained not recognise this for the predatory behaviour that it was?
“‘Esme had been dressing differently for months, no longer wearing the skirts or dresses she’d loved when she was younger and was instead wearing baggy hoodies and jeans. She’d chopped off her long hair into a short crop.” dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…
“‘But I’d also discovered she was ordering chest binders (which flatten the breasts) and I was worried she’d hurt herself.
‘I’d read up on gender identity and reassured her she could be as gender non-conforming as she wanted, but I wasn’t going to let her harm her body.”
“‘They took a day to respond but eventually replied saying that in keeping with their Equality, Inclusion & Diversity policy, they had “socially transitioned” [when you refer to someone by different names and pronouns to match their gender identity] my daughter”
16 year olds are CHILDREN @GillianKeegan, this means they are entitled to #safeguarding. Safeguarding is a collective responsibility that we all share, why are you shirking yours. Even @Keir_Starmer who doesn’t understand that only women have a cervix, knows that 16 is a child.
This is just the latest episode in @GillianKeegan shirking responsibilities. She needs to resign now. We cannot have an education Secretary that doesn’t understand #safeguarding & doesn’t understand that 16 year olds are children. safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2022/12/22/is-…
It is important for effective child #safeguarding that the line is held that under 18’s are CHILDREN. Obfuscating language such as ‘young people’ needs to be resisted. It is an abdication of responsibility allowing children to make decisions that cause them harm. #edutwitter
Interesting thread from @Headteacherchat. We would say the greatest #safeguarding concern for schools at the moment is the sheer volume of children needing help. We seem to be witnessing our safeguarding frameworks failing on a national level. In our opinion both @educationgovuk
& @Ofstednews have an insufficient understanding of child protection to enable them to effectively safeguard the nations children. There seems to be no oversight & no accountability from anyone. This includes @ChildrensComm. @UKParliament is in complete dereliction of duty
& seems to have forgotten that under 18’s are children & that every child matters. Even worse than @Conservatives washing their hands of their duty of care, is @UKLabour failing to provide any effective opposition, they are missing in action, only occasionally appearing to point