Leeds / West Yorkshire and injustices against women

Jessica Eaton contacted the police because of the harassment towards her from Phil Mitchell, leader of the Mesmac Blast project (which was a program for young male survivors of sexual abuse).

thread here

After criticism from the Charity Commission around safeguarding, Mesmac closed Project Blast earlier this year.

Its really worth following Jessica Eaton's 'Victim Focus' and her work on CSE. She ran a successful campaign #NoMoreCSEfilms.

There was some sort of link to the films with Yorkshire MESMAC involved individual/s. I'm not sure of the details though.

www.victimfocus.org.uk/campaigns
twitter.com/Jessicae13Eaton?lang=en

Child abuse and Child Sexual Exploitation is widespread yes.

There will though always be areas where there are specific systemic issues / clustered issues etc.

It's not just Leeds or West Yorkshire it's happening everywhere in the UK.

January 2018 Yorkshire Post: 'Paedophile ex-council chief was also trustee of child abuse charity'

(extract)
A paedophile who helped to run the children’s safety unit in one of Yorkshire’s biggest cities was also a trustee of a controversial charity that helps young victims of abuse, it has emerged. Heathcliffe Bowen, who served three terms as chairman of Ilkley Parish Council, was jailed for five years on Monday for paying an under-age boy for sex and taking part in explicit online chats with other youngsters. The judge at Bradford Crown Court branded him a “predatory paedophile” who “couldn’t help himself”. Some of the offences were committed while Bowen, 50, was employed by Bradford Council as administrator of the city’s Safeguarding Children’s Board.

At the same time, he was a trustee of the Leeds-based charity Yorkshire MESMAC and a director of its trading arm. The charity was criticised last year over concerns that its rules appeared to allow workers to sleep with their clients. Its chief executive, Tom Doyle, said Bowen had resigned from the Board of Trustees before any allegations came to light and was required to resign as a director when it was learned he was under investigation. He added that the charity’s rules had been rewritten with the help of the Safeguarding Children Board in Leeds." (continues)

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/paedophile-ex-council-chief-was-also-trustee-of-child-abuse-charity-1-8990165

Sue Pascoe is from North Yorkshire.www.barcroft.tv/former-hunt-master-sue-pascoe-transgender-journey Sue was recently appointed as an inclusion adviser to Channel 4

Also a hopeful Conservative Party candidate

9/8/2018 thread following announcement of SP's appointment by Ch4 with a lot of background and interesting comment (its worth reading the MN comment mid thread re deletions)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3331095-Channel-4-appoints-a-new-advisor-on-inclusion

Sue Pascoe was very dismissive of radical feminists, especially the 'ones' that are lesbians too on the SKY GRA special where she was also interviewed. Sue asserts that she is female, will die female and also talks of being 'a woman with a trans past'.
The SKY special also featured Jess Bradley (just before the NHS suspension for alleged flashing in workplace / public places) stating 'doesn't think such thing as a real woman' etc
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3311038-Sky-News-9-30am-today-re-GRA

Sue Pascoe also very anti Transgender Trend & has supported the parliamentary petition against their school toolkit.
The petitition apparently was deliberately re-worded after a previous one which was more explicitly targetted against TGT was rejected/withdrawn.

More recently in Leeds, relevent threads:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3378894-Leeds-WPUK-cancelled

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3381772-leedswomen2018

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3382001-Something-rotten-in-the-city-of-Leeds

Recent Yorkshire Post article describing Sue Pascoe's recent trip to Leeds for networking etc events

(extract)
"POLITICAL and business leaders can help to deliver vast economic benefits by collaborating to turn Leeds into the UK’s most inclusive city, according to an adviser for Channel 4. Sue Pascoe said that implementing policies to support a workplace meritocracy would help to unlock commercial and strategic benefits.

Ms Pascoe, who is working with Channel 4 to increase its inclusivity culture, added: “In our drive to see our standards of living increase, we’ve forgotten that it’s standard of life that sustains us and our diverse interlocking communities.” (continues)

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/channel-4-adviser-believes-leeds-can-become-uk-s-most-inclusive-city-1-9332267

I found the juxtoposition between headline and panel photograph interesting

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That's really heartening to hear, thanks for sharing Lass.

From his twitter feed Alan Caton is still actively promoting the Nordic model and anti-prostitution campaigns.

mobile.twitter.com/accaton?lang=en

Here is how an other police force acted.

Ex-detective superintendent Alan Caton trialled something similar to the Nordic model in Ipswich. The scheme was introduced after the murder of five street prostitutes in 2006 by Stephen Wright, an ex-merchant seaman known as the Suffolk strangler and now serving a life sentence.

After leading the biggest investigation in Suffolk police’s history, he took charge of a multi-agency strategy to eliminate prostitution through zero tolerance of kerb crawlers and offering the women a way out of prostitution through an amnesty backed by intensive counselling and support. In the first two years, 140 kerb crawlers were arrested, with the option of avoiding publicity by admitting their guilt and getting caution.

Most were married or in long term relationships and had children. “When I asked the [men] about it, they said: ‘I am paying for it, I can do what I want.’ That helped me form the view over time that this is not right. Men should not be able to exploit and abuse women in that way,” said Mr Caton

The result, independently validated by the University of East Anglia, was that more than 80 women “made life changes to move on from prostitution”, kerb crawling and street prostitution was eliminated, 400 children were identified as being at risk of sexual exploitation and criminal justice costs were halved. Police and charities say the zero tolerance continues, with nearly all the women still out of prostitution.

The contrast with Holbeck’s hands-off policy could not be sharper.

angryresistor

Yup. And Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley. It’s endemic.,

This came up in my memory from seeing a thread...

Lord Patel of Bradford (an ex social worker in Bradford turned lecturer, then peer, now the new Chair of the newly created Social Work Regulator)

www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/03/20/new-chair-social-work-regulator-announced/

with his invitee to the HoL, Karen Jones.

I'd like to know what he thinks about the grooming gangs and abuse of girls etc.

The grooming of girls in Leeds and Bradford has been going on for over30 years. Not a huge amount of action when they go missing.

Anyone else, in the light of NSPCC's recent weird policy feel a bit queasy about Sir Rodney Walker buying Jimmy Savile's Scarborough flat as holiday home and seeming pretty blasé about the abuse?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-scarborough-flat-bought-1787149

For the record

news.sky.com/story/ex-police-inspector-cleared-over-savile-call-10349295

Lest we forget..

The 61-year-old former West Yorkshire officer was a regular at the Friday Morning Club, a men-only meeting with friends including police at Savile’s flat in Roundhay, Leeds.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-police-minder-mick-2464098

Well whaddayaknow

Whodathunkit

Feels tiinfoil hat but |I would say yes something is rotten to the core in the area.

Former Lord Mayor of Leeds Neil Taggart was jailed for having thousands of child abuse images.

Article here

"Taggart was a Leeds City councillor between 1980 and 2014; Lord Mayor of Leeds in 2003/04 and served as chairman of West Yorkshire Police Authority between 1998 and 2003."

Men in the UK do approach any and all women if they are just in the area even if with kids even if young etc

Friend went to leeds uni lived in an area with street prostitution she was forever being kerb crawled.

I've been asked how much more than once in London and was a grungy sort of person dm boots black leggings etc

Men in UK seem to go according to "don't ask don't get / no harm in asking".

Just my experience obv.

Emma the intern was back end of last year/earlier this year.

Sue Pascoe has reported Fair Play and WPUK to the police for being 'hate groups'

Women have been abducted off the street and raped, their attackers walk free because of the red light district.

I do not understand this. At all. I have lived in several European cities where prostitution is legal and at times, on my way home from some pub, I passed through the respective streets.

Neither will men approach you (a catcall, maybe), if you don't act with particular mannirisms that prostitutes use deliberately to attract males, nor would such an abduction go unprosecuted, no matter whether the woman is a prostitute or not.

oh goodness, NewWomen, when did that happen?

About 10 years ago I think.

Charity Commission report into Mesmac.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/charity-case-report-yorkshire-mesmac/yorkshire-mesmac-case-report

"We concluded that the trustees’ failure to report serious incidents to the Commission left issues of serious regulatory concern unchecked and unmanaged.

Through their actions, the trustees placed the charity and its beneficiaries at undue risk, thereby falling short on important duties around safeguarding and managing risk."