Parents also need to know who is coming into the school to speak to our kids.
Schools, NHS, Police, all organisations need to be alerted to the need to check credentials, do their homework and think before accepting a trainer, with it linked clearly to safeguarding. Since the revelation of one of the well known political lobby figures mentioned in an inquiry had not only no safeguarding knowledge but lacked the capacity to be able to understand safeguarding, I've been mentioning this to managers in various fields and making a point of asking for/checking and sharing my own credentials and pointing out the need to prove capacity, qualification and fitness to be doing anything potentially affecting policy and safeguarding.
The first response is generally a dozy kind of interest that anyone's thought of this, followed by an 'oh fuck' moment when the risks are pointed out. This lobby has got as far as it has on public trust and laziness, because no lobby has ever pulled this particular fast one before. Practice has to be sharpened up. No one should be training on the EquA, particularly expecting to direct and change policy, without qualifications and training to prove it, and with experience in the field, doing impact assessments, (the actual, proper kind that look at all groups interests, not just the one they like) and knowledge of practice and needs of all groups being affected.
Due diligence. Safeguarding. Accountability.