cencorship

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why do you censor comments about a special needs school that has been found guilty by a tribunal of failing to protect vulnerable children. Surely the whole country needs to know about this to allow parents to make an informed choice about the care their children are actually receiving at the hands of various members of staff. Some of the actions border on inhumane.

Not even sure they are joining en masse.

Some may be name-changing and posting as different people.

This board is incredibly welcoming but there is something else going on here and people should just come clean about it.

How very odd. No one on the SN boards has the power to censor anything, OP.
You need to talk to MNHQ as has already been stated.

Veritate, you were a new poster when something similar was going on. There have been loads of new posts over the past few days. Afaics they have all been welcomed.

^It is everything to do with the arrogance of people who have no interest in joining a community supposing that they can waltz in and use regular posters to meet their own ends.

If people want to join our community, sharing the boring mundane stuff as well as the attention grabbing stuff, go ahead - they're welcome.^

The problem with that is that there is absolutely nothing in the MN rules that say you have to share "the boring mundane stuff". Indeed, people may not be able to do so because they lack the relevant knowledge, but that doesn't make their opinion on specific issues any less valid. The other problem is that you are making an absolutely massive assumption there that people are using "regular posters" to meet their own ends, and that seems to be an assumption people round here jump to all too often. Also, of course, people may be drawn to MN by something in which they have a specific interest and then hang around because they discover other areas of interest or are able to contribute in other ways.

I can't really see how posting something on here amounts to "using" regular posters at all - no-one has to engage with it if they don't want to.

Morning.

We have no wish to censor any discussions.

But we hope everyone will appreciate that we will remove potentially defamatory posts once they are reported to us.

We will also take appropriate action if we suspect that posters are breaching our site rules about not having multiple registrations and/or not using different Talk usernames in a way that might inflame or mislead. Please note that we are not saying this necessarily applies to any posters on this thread.

It's important, too, that all our users are aware that anything disclosed here - or in any future or past discussion on Mumsnet - is (or has been) available to public view and could, potentially, be used in ongoing proceedings.

Let me put the message across. I am not part of any lobby group, I do not have a child with SEN, and therefore do not have any connection to the school in question. My only reason for posting my previous comment was to stop censorship. Can people not be so intolerant of others. Please remember, parents of children that have suffered abuse at the hands of others, need our support, not our critism. For some of them life is a daily living hell.

Below, many of us here have children that have suffered abuse, directly or due to neglect. This board in it's current form is a support network for those families.

THEY, the SE families should get support and justice but you have to understand that it can be upsetting for regular posters here to have a bunch of unknown posters suddenly descend with posts on their own problems without acknowledging the battles of the people from whom they are seeking support. This is not a MN rule, but it isn't polite and it is likely to get at least some annoyed responses.

Totally get that MNHQ has to be v careful legally.

Personally though I quite like the very bright light of publicity being shone on abuse cases at SN residential schools, also Winterbourne View etc,

If my boy ever had to go into residential, he literally would not be able to tell me about any abuse. He would not know it was abuse, he would have no words to tell me, he would just cry at the time. I would never know.

So, frankly, the more publicity the better. Maybe it will make the next lot of abusers, or useless staff not paying attention, think twice.

The judgment and Ofsted report are shocking and speak for themselves and this has made the national BBC web pages too.

I shall be highlighting this with our local MP - perhaps, if people want to shine a light and do something positive, they could send links these links to their MPs and raise the issue of Ofsted oversight of these type of residential places.

MPs will only deal with you if you are a constituent and may not want to deal with an issue not in their constituency but it could be raised as a broader regulatory concern in the light of Winterborne and Haringey.

You could also raise it with your local paper.

Very good points inapp