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.
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
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This month we were invited to a meeting with the Department for Education in London to discuss their draft guidance for schools on gender questioning children and the LGBT content in the draft RSHE guidance.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
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
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
Academic experiments and child safeguarding
We have written an open letter to Professor Arif Ahmed, Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom at the Office for Students, to raise concerns relating to the influence of experimental academic discourse on public policy. You can read this below. Dear Professor Ahmed, Congratulations on your appointment as Director for Freedom of Speech … Continue reading Academic experiments and child safeguarding
Petition: Do not allow people to have acquired gender listed as sex on Government ID
We wholeheartedly support the petition to reform arrangements for issuing Government IDs such as passports and driving licenses - a person's so called acquired gender should never be listed as their sex. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637290 We agree that "Issuing men with identity documents saying they are women poses #safeguarding issues.” There are serious risks here for the … Continue reading Petition: Do not allow people to have acquired gender listed as sex on Government ID
The Age of Consent
To safeguard 16- and 17-year-old children we need to raise the age of consent. The recent accusations against Russell Brand and Huw Edwards are just the latest incidents that have prompted some people to defend older men who start relationships with children on the grounds that those children were over the age of consent at … Continue reading The Age of Consent