Just to clarify my post above. I only mentioned homosexual male people because these are LGBT+ groups we are talking about.
As I said, I don’t believe that the propensity between homosexual, bisexual and heterosexual male people to sexually abuse children is significantly different from each other. And I don’t advocate any of these groups needing any extra risk assessment for safeguarding than what the base standard is for working for children.
What is needed is ensuring all safeguards around our children are strong, maybe they need strengthening in places. But there needs to be strong, consistently and rigorously applied, safeguards around these groups.
No special sub groups of male people should be allowed for applying safeguarding processes. We have had that in the past with priests, pillars of society etc. We should never say a group should be specially treated as being ‘safer’.