On 26–27 July 2025 Tanya Carter, delivered a powerful and urgent speech at the WDI International Conference (in London and online), drawing attention to the escalating safeguarding failures in UK schools. Her talk offered a sobering account of how gender identity ideology, inappropriate RSHE materials, and institutional denial have compromised child protection - especially for girls.
Tanya Carter’s Speech on Safeguarding Delivered at WDI International Conference 2025
On 26–27 July 2025 Tanya Carter, delivered a powerful and urgent speech at the WDI International Conference (in London and online), drawing attention to the escalating safeguarding failures in UK schools. Her talk offered a sobering account of how gender identity ideology, inappropriate RSHE materials, and institutional denial have compromised child protection - especially for girls.
Are we waking up to the risks posed by schools to gender questioning children?
We are proud to publish a new guest article written by a concerned mother who shares her deeply personal account of what happened when her autistic, gender-questioning daughter encountered an education system unwilling to safeguard her properly. The post, written before the release of the updated RSHE guidance but shortly after the publication of the … Continue reading Are we waking up to the risks posed by schools to gender questioning children?
The Supreme Court Judgment and Child Safeguarding
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court confirmed that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, and “women” refers to biological women. The five Supreme Court Justices have been careful to say that they are not making any comment on the use of these words outside of the Equality Act 2010, but for many … Continue reading The Supreme Court Judgment and Child Safeguarding
Grooming Gangs and Safeguarding Failures
Since our inception, we have been highlighting widespread systemic safeguarding failures in this country. The latest revelations about child sex abuse and grooming gangs have shocked but not surprised us. There must be a public inquiry into how lessons from past failures have not been learned and why effective safeguarding has been so disastrously dismantled … Continue reading Grooming Gangs and Safeguarding Failures
Meeting with the Department for Education
This month we were invited to a meeting with the Department for Education in London to discuss their draft guidance for schools on gender questioning children and the LGBT content in the draft RSHE guidance. The previous government’s consultation on gender questioning children closed in March 2024, and the consultation on revised relationships, sex and … Continue reading Meeting with the Department for Education
What is wrong with using masturbation as a tool for sex education?
Sadly, we don’t have to look too far to see the sexualisation of children; we do not need to look for it at all, for it comes looking for us. The article examined below is Brook’s ‘Masturbation as a tool for sex education,’ and is a case in point. We discuss author Terri Harris’ idea … Continue reading What is wrong with using masturbation as a tool for sex education?
Our Position as a Safeguarding Organisation
We have been alarmed at some of the rhetoric we have seen within the "Gender Critical" movement recently. As a response to recent discussions, we decided to publish our position as a non-religious, non-political, safeguarding organisation. We believe conflating same-sex attraction with a fetish or sexual deviancy is an abhorrent position borne from prejudice and … Continue reading Our Position as a Safeguarding Organisation
Dismantling Barriers to Effective Safeguarding
This article is in response to the 2023 paper ‘Men Changing Nappies: Dismantling a key barrier to gender-diversifying the early years workforce,’ (hereafter named ‘Dismantling Barriers’) by Joann Wilkinson and Jo Warin, both of the University of Manchester, and Jeremy Davies, of The Fatherhood Institute, UK. In this paper the authors note the continuing low … Continue reading Dismantling Barriers to Effective Safeguarding
Join our call for a Public Inquiry
Following the publication of the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (commonly known as the Cass Review) we have written to the Prime Minister asking for a Public Inquiry into current systemic child safeguarding failures in the whole of the UK. We hope our supporters will join our call. The Cass Review … Continue reading Join our call for a Public Inquiry