Social Worker/Probation Officer Reported to Employers for Supporting JKR Tweet

The more this happens the more people will see it for what it is.

Saw someone on legal Twitter say it's been sorted. Not sure if that means he's no longer being investigated or that he's getting legal advice.

Really shocked to hear this. Another one with spade at the ready should there be a court case.

The parallels drawn with Rotherham there are absolutely chlling. Isn't there a law to protect whistleblowers, or does that not apply here?

Does anyone follow Shaun Attwood? I ended up watching some of his videos after he did an interview with Sonia Poulton. The one linked below is about exactly the scenario you have described, Uncompromisingwoman . A policeman blows the whistle on the police and social services' failure to investigate chid prostitution in Haringey care homes. He is told off for doing so "by a leading children's charity" (which he doesn't name, but since there is only one that has statutory powers and a liking for employees wearing their fetish gear at work, I have made my own conclusions). He is then hounded by the police himself, for neglecting his own child (15 year old, in the care of his 26 year old brother, while his policeman dad is at the bedside of his other son, who is on life support). It's beyond sinister.

Identical strategy to that used in Rotherham. Ensure that whistleblowers are silenced using threats and intimidation. And the useful idiots in local government, social care etc have been so captured that they both petrified of standing up for children's safety while actively supporting those who can be observed removing safeguarding from children.

Poor man. Some pretty awful people out there seem desperate to undermine safeguarding around children.
Willing to do some digging if he decides to take this further.

He’s protected his tweets (understandably). The poor man. What an absolute disgrace this is happening, does nobody in charge give a fuck enough to just listen and engage for 5 bloody minutes? I loathe bullying, if you’ve got a proper argument for this appalling ideology then let’s hear it. Otherwise, do fuck off and leave the grown ups alone.

sinister as hell

Andrew has now tweeted that he will be investigated

twitter.com/athornehere/status/1218081359157219328?s=21

He's clearly not a risk to any child - since he prioritises safeguarding, over and above everything else. Which is what everyone should be doing.

Can't help but notice that the threatening thread talks about Andrew being a risk to LGBT children, not trans children. The trans lobby are hiding behind LGB children again. Andrew would be a threat to LGB children if he supported an affirmation-only response to children who think they are trans.

All this stemmed from Andrew supporting JK Rowling's tweets, and a disagreement with giving puberty blockers to children? Sounds an eminently sensible stance to me - and to many others, including Marcus Evans, former head of GIDS, and many other whistleblowers. And from that, a couple of transactivists have decided Andrew is "unsafe" around lgbt children? This is crazy.

I've just read that thread, where threats are made to Andrew to report him, and it just seems like bullying and intimidation to me. I support Andrew.

It's incredible and unbelievable that the gaps in safeguarding seem to be widening, not closed up.
Yep. Gender self-ID will leave us with enormous loopholes that sexual predators will be through in a bloody twinkling. It will completely counteract the massive efforts to improve safeguarding, unless the powers that be wake up sharpish and think of the unintended consequences of their terribly Woke actions.

NJ popped up on my twitter feed to have a real go at me for not affirming DD. NJ got blocked by me the second time NJ decided to have another go.

He is very brave.

Social Work England is not his employer, it is the regulatory body with which all practising social workers have to be registered. I would be appalled if they took the complaint seriously. It actually is an opportunity for them to state what their position is re Safeguarding.

I've messaged Andrew to say I'll happily sign a letter to social work England in support of his right to express his views and I hope that other registered social workers will do so too.

I see twitter user Nicola Jayne (nicolajayneh) - an ex HCP, now transwoman ballerina - was involved with searching for and sharing Andrew Thorne's social work record.

twitter.com/vickyjane64/status/1208685026789019648

It's not the first time NJ's name has popped up in relation to trans related stories.

I’d be really interested to read more about that, @CrissmussMockers- could you suggest any links?

and the stonewall mermaids trainers are welcomed into Social services..

It's tickyboxes!

Ever since Soham, where the perfectly good police check system was short-circuited, but instead of fixing it, they threw it out and gave us the crazy world of DBS.

It is absolutely nothing to do with safety of vulnerable groups and absolutely everything to do with public bodies covering their arses for the sake of the insurance. And nothing else.

It's incredible and unbelievable that the gaps in safeguarding seem to be widening, not closed up.

The lessons of Rotherham, and Saville, and all the others, have not been learned.

Andrew is a brave person to stand up like this.

He is absolutely spot on. It's funny, I saw a job the other day in a local authority and didn't apply for it as I knew it would be impossible to speak freely about these issues whilst in a politically restricted role.

I have first hand experience of massive blind spots in local authority safeguarding practice (similar to Rotherham) and left my last job because of it. He is right to be concerned.

I done loads a safeguarding. They give you the multi-choice answers on a piece of paper, then the ones who get it right first time help the ones who didn't pass until everyone passes.

Tickyboxes, on the hillside. Tickyboxes, made of tikky-takey. And we all fill in the boxes. And we all think just the same....

Slight derail but this is a cracking thread that was on his timeline.

twitter.com/hatpinwoman/status/1208553113738776577?s=20

I've had child safeguarding training from a woman who goes on demos with a 'no terfs on our turf' placard

Thank you Andrew. I hope your colleagues step up.