Thou woldest make me kisse thyn old breech
And swere it were a relik of a seint
Thogh it were with thy fundement depeint
I am #UntowardAboutPaedophiles
Apr 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 Mother is an important word. It has a specific legal meaning for very important reasons, many of which centre on the #safeguarding of the babies born to mothers. A baby's mother is the woman who gave birth to it. Mother has a legal status.
The most fundamental safeguard of a newborn baby is the legal parental responsibility (PR) automatically given to its mother. The reasons for this are laid out in the judgement in the Freddie McConnell case.
Jan 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
PROPORTIONALITY IN #SAFEGUARDING - a quick thread on the *correct* definition of proportionality and other guiding principles from the Care Act 2014.
The principle of proportionality in #safeguarding is to ensure any interventions you make are the least intrusive possible for the level of risk TO THE CHILD OR VULNERABLE ADULT and NOT the practitioners who are intervening. It's protective of the client, NOT the practitioner.
Jan 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Sigh. Quick 🧵
More #safeguarding fails. Please could you watch this video by @claireOT about a discussion in a recent podcast, in which adult sexualities are projected onto pre-school children by adults and #safeguarding red flags are ignored.
@claireOT Here's a thread about the same issues by @TaniaAMarshall. We should *never* place children outside normal #safeguarding frameworks because we are more interested in how we can interpret their behaviours to suit preferred narratives of men with paraphilias.
INFILTRATION: okay, a bit of dust has settled so I'm going to try to explain one particular aspect of why the way organisations react to having #safeguarding concerns raised with them is important. This thread is inspired by recent events but is not about them specifically.
The risk to children is ever present. The National Crime Agency's most recent estimate is that there are between 550,000 and 850,000 people (almost all of them men) who pose a risk to children IN THE UK ALONE. standard.co.uk/news/uk/nca-fa…
Dec 10, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Minor thought experiment on the idea that destigmatising certain male sexual behaviours - "understanding the poor suffering man better" - is the best strategy and will make something pro-social out of something anti-social.
What if we substitute a different human impulse that is anti-social rather than pro-social? Let's take theft. Some people are covetous. They get really distressed if they can't have the things they want. If they can't buy them, they steal them. Some become kleptomaniacs.
Sep 29, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
You know, the most damning thing about the @UKLabour conference is how ignorant they all are about the women they have been traducing. Few people are highly political in the activist sense and most view those who are, as rather crankish.
@UKLabour But women opposing genderism have been through an intense period of political education in the last five years. They've learned about concepts like regulatory capture and institutional capture and the difference between them. They know about policy laundering.
Sep 23, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Privacy and single sex services: an analogy of workable policy.
You must be 18 to purchase alcohol in a pub in the UK. This is an age-based safeguard for young people. There are sanctions on pubs who serve under-age customers.
