On the off chance Owen Jones continues reading the thread, this is a clear factual explanation of Safeguarding by Professor Rosa Freedman (Reading University Law, Conflict & Global Development).
Perhaps he could take it seriously & when he's calmed down have a think about it (be good to share with his couple of colleagues at The Guardian who are also having an overly emotional reaction)
"THREAD ON CHILD SAFEGUARDING AND THE NSPCC: For the past three years I have been researching and working on child safeguarding in conflict and crisis zones. The international child safeguarding standards, developed by @keepchildsafe provide a tool for implementing child safeguarding across organisations ranging from local book clubs to multinational institutions.
An overall approach to safeguarding children is rooted in understanding the risks to children from the organisation, (its staff, programme and operations). This is a robust and comprehensive process that begins with developing or strengthening a child safeguarding policy that describes how the organisation is committed to promoting the rights, dignity and well-being of children, and preventing all forms of exploitation and abuse.
It then requires organisational development in the form of allocating staff time, ensuring staff are trained and coordinated, and that there is good communication on safeguarding children.
There also needs to be sound processes for planning, implementation, monitoring and review, to ensure clear and transparent lines of accountability right up to board level.
Our project website showcases how this can be done in peacekeeping operations: research.reading.ac.uk/safeguarding-children/the-toolkit/ …
The Keeping Children Safe website showcases how this can be done across all types of organisations and contexts www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/
The criticisms being levelled against the NSPCC are not about individuals being homosexual or transgender, just as the criticisms being levelled against Oxfam are not about individuals being heterosexual white men.
The criticisms levelled are about organisations taking responsibility for ensuring that people working with children uphold the organisation’s policies on child safeguarding.
Publishing photographs of your genitals whilst in an NSPCC building violates child safeguarding standards and goes against the organisation's values.
Encouraging children to contact you privately violates child safeguarding standards and goes against the organisation's values.
That is not to say that either individual has harmed or would ever harm a child – the issue is not about what they have done but about whether they uphold or contravene the organisation's child safeguarding robust policies and procedures.
The issue is about ensuring that the organisation has robust measures in place to ensure child safeguarding standards are implemented and upheld across the organisation.
The organisation's responsibility is to the children it works with and the communities it serves, and part of that responsibility is ensuring that its values and that international child safeguarding standards are implemented and upheld. END"
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