Welsh Government hires sex offender to research sexuality and gender issue

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The Welsh Government is reviewing how it came to award a research contract related to sexuality and gender to a firm whose sole director had been jailed after admitting three charges of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.
https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-government-hires-sex-offender-to-research-sexuality-and-gender-issue/

No way. The Welsh government seems so competent and hot on safeguarding!

I wonder what weasel words they'll use to excuse this. 'Lessons learned' starter for ten

Eluned Morgan thinks transwomen are women. The Welsh government has introduced unisex toilets in schools. They also don’t believe that children with autism is linked to wanting to be transgender. There is little opposition in Wales and the opposition there is does not challenge this.

Ah, but this never happens.

Gosh. Colour me shocked.

Oh FGS. This was no accident.

The Welsh Government has a "Grants Centre of Excellence" and "Grant Assurance Panel". Must be a busy role applying those standards. The 'due diligence checks' obviously don't include 'Is this person remotely qualified to do this work?' or 'Are they a convicted sex offender?' 🙄grant-scheme-standards.pdf (gov.wales)

Figures.

Did they identify as a non-threat? That's all the safeguarding that seems to be required these days.

It’s just a few bad apple farms.

Ffs. In Scotland there's a man running a government funded rape crisis centre and now this.
Nobody in power really gives a shit, do they?

FFS!

www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl4ym5kl85eo

The council in North Wales failed to act after attempts to alert them to this man.

I am sure that a thorough report will be done and won't get lost. The Welsh Government have never lost anything, certainly not an Equality Impact Assessment

There needs to be more press scrutiny of Welsh politics and organisations.

does anyone think the welch are in some sort of competition with the Scots to produce the most "No way! fucking hell!" headlines in the papers?

Awaiting the klaxon and influx of
'Why are all you total haterz completely OBSESSED!! with this guy's past?!!
It's so mean!! Why are you all judging him!?'
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Unfortunately nobody's paying any attention to the 'Troughers down the Bay', the turn out for the last election was 45% (if you round it up), that's why they get away with the things the do. 😒

The allocation of this contract to an unqualified sex offender is distracting from the fundamental point of 'what the hell are they doing commissioning this 'research' in the first bloody place?' You don't decide on a policy, then spend public money commissioning someone to go and find some evidence that there's a problem that it will solve. Especially when the UK government has already commissioned someone to look, and they found almost none.

Gender identity - it's like brain kryptonite.

Do you have a link to where she’s said that?

Not helped by the BBC’s limited interest in / coverage of Welsh politics and democracy.

This news item attracted loads of comments yesterday but has already been ditched from BBC Wales front page, presumably having been deemed of lesser importance and news value than Richard Burton’s bench which is still up top.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05jvl65meno

Dear RS&B29,

Thank you for your email. Both the Welsh Labour Government and Welsh Labour party is committed to advancing equality for all and is clear this means taking account of intersecting forms of discrimination, disadvantage and striving to achieve equality of outcome for everyone.

We have made clear our stance that trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary identities are valid. We restate our support for trans people’s right to self-identification. We are also committed to ensuring that we tackle the entrenched and long-standing injustices and institutionalised sexism women face.

We support the thorough implementation of the Equality Act 2010, balancing the rights of all. The Welsh Government is carrying out further work to understand the legal context and implications of the Act.

We will continue our work to stamp out all forms of discrimination

Yours Sincerely,

Eluned Morgan AS/MS
Mid and West Wales

Men are women (paraphrasing) and "We are also committed to ensuring that we tackle the entrenched and long-standing injustices and institutionalised sexism women face."

Did they not read that back, or is this what actually they meant? Poor menz?

I have no faith in the Welsh Government.

Thanks Rita.

“We support the thorough implementation of the Equality Act 2010, balancing the rights of all. The Welsh Government is carrying out further work to understand the legal context and implications of the Act.“

So they declared a Welsh Labour political belief/ Welsh Gov policy position first and then decided to carry out work to understand whether their political position is compatible with UK law afterwards?

What was the date of that reply? Recent? Or enough time since then for them to carried out the “further work”?