Brendan Cox has resigned

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Brendan Cox @ mrbrendancox
Last week I decided to step down from my public roles to face up to mistakes I made several years ago while at Save the Children. I apologise to people I offended or upset at the time. My actions were never malicious but they were at times inappropriate.
I take responsibility for my actions and will hold myself to a higher standard in the future.

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jo-cox-husband-brendan-cox-step-down-charity-a8215951.html%3famp
Brendan Cox steps down from charity set up in murdered wife Jo’s memory over 'mistakes I made several years ago'

I do feel sorry for Short. She was an impressive int dev secretary and she will be viewing this as a complete disaster for the sector. Where she is wrong is in conflating this reckoning with a disaster for int aid.

It doesn't have to be.

Save the Children and Oxfam failed their female staff and the people they were supposed to help in Haiti, Chad, etc but it doesn't mean the entire sector is rotten and it doesn't mean international aid has failed.

Rather than trying to minimise she should be standing alongside the female staff and calling out the predators. It's this messy fudging of the issue that is going to damn the sector.

There are lots of good people who work in int dev. If only MPs were standing up for them rather than the lecherous bullies they're currently trying to defend.

That is a good article nauticant. Good article but depressing.

KateAdie - I agree with everything you've written.

This story rumbles on and gets worse:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43287838

The attitudes are disgraceful. And they are letting the Chairman who failed to act properly before to be part of their very thorough "root and branch review"?

Save The Children are aggressively threatening legal action to journalists trying to report on this (excellent use of funds). I would not be surprised if more depressing detail comes out.

I am now listening to this:
PM programme

They report that as part of the investigation of the first complaint, the Chairman was supposed to send a formal warning letter to Justin Forsyth, but Forsyth claims he doesn't recall seeing one. I reckon this will all unravel when the men start throwing each other under a bus, but that will only be once they have run out of women to silence, patronise, gaslight and denigrate.

Glad to see this still rumbling on. I had got the feeling the bosses were keeping their heads down and hoping it would all blow over.

More charities are coming forward to admit their workers abroad abused children and vunerable people.
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/mar/05/child-sex-abuse-claims-cases-newly-reported-charity-watchdog-penny-mordaunt

Thanks for linking that new BBC story maladroit - I'd not see it.

It looks like the real story is coming out now - lots of details of what happened to the women - much minimisation from the men...

Surely Sir Alan will have to resign - such a cavalier attitude to HR processes etc?

He's being remarkably obstinate in the face of the evidence against him and the criticisms, and the charity appears remarkably reluctant to sack him. Manveen Rana's PM makes reference to very own article about handling crises and how he is now doing the exact opposite.

His arrogance is palpable - just watch him next to Alexia Pepper de Caries in the video linked on the BBC article.

Wow that bbc video is just fantastic - just wow