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?
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
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
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
The Cass Review
We are pleased that the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People has finally been released. This comprehensive review by Dr Hilary Cass has exposed the harms that have been done to children by allowing an ideology to override safeguarding. Children have been given experimental drugs to halt puberty with no … Continue reading The Cass Review
Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls
On Monday 12th February, Tanya Carter, Safe Schools Alliance spokeswoman, attended a meeting hosted by Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls (@UNSRVAW) as part of her UK and NI visit. We joined other groups that advocate for the rights and protections of women and children. We wanted to share … Continue reading Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls
Statement on recently published guidance for transgender pupils
Safe Schools Alliance does not welcome the "Guidance for maintained schools and academies in England on provision for transgender pupils” which has been published by the Association of School and College Leaders, Chartered College of Teaching, Confederation of School Trusts (CST), Institute of School Business Leadership, National Association of Head Teachers and National Governance Association. … Continue reading Statement on recently published guidance for transgender pupils
Breast binding at Nonsuch High
As reported in The Sunday Times this morning, Safe Schools Alliance has reported Nonsuch High School for Girls to the Department for Education over very worrying safeguarding failures and breaches of the 1996 Education Act. Our concerns include its promotion of the damaging practice of breast binding, as well as providing children with links to … Continue reading Breast binding at Nonsuch High
Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service for children rated inadequate
A national problem The Care Quality Commission inspection report into the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Gender Identity Service has found it to be ‘inadequate’. It is a truly shocking read. It has identified multiple areas of concern. We are appalled at the spin that this is just about waiting times. It is not. … Continue reading Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service for children rated inadequate