landyland. Isn't 20% of Twitter supposed to be bots? It becomes apparent when someone is discussed who is know to be using a high profile/damage limitation type of PR agency.
I think this is getting too big to be limited to be contained within Mermaids. The bottom line is child safeguarding and protection. I hope that a more systemic review is organised which would set out firm safeguarding requirements both for charities working with children and young people, and particularly for charities providing education services for children and young people. The sort of requirements that schools are already used to.
I wonder whether Trustees in other organisations providing similar services are feeling nervous. Wtf has the NSPCC being doing over the past few years. Their job surely is to spot problems (and people have been telling them,) and acting to resolve them.
I wonder if there is pressure on Susie G et al to fall on their swords, to essentially get the story out of the headlines.
I also wonder whether the Charities Commission were given a green light from somewhere within Government to take the action they are taking. (Following behind the scenes work by the likes of Miriam, the Baroness and Conservative Women led by Caroline Ffiske.) Or alternatively that the evidence that was being given in the current court case, especially around competence and whether anyone at Mermaids had read the Cass report, and so the Charities Commission felt they needed to get in there first.
The important thing is that any reviews and action do not stop with Mermaids. The safety of children needs to come first.