The failure of social work to safeguard Children in Care.

[MrsOvertonsWindow]

Transgender Trend have published an expose of how children in care of the state have been abandoned by social workers and the other trusted adults tasked with safeguarding them from harm.

This is a devastating critique of how social work in particular, along with foster carers and schools have uncritically adopted transactivism. The capture of the regulators - Social Work England, CAFCASS, the CQC, the DFE stopped all challenge. Children in Care are massively over represented in GIDs and other data.

All organisations failed to safeguard these exceptionally vulnerable children. Instead they allowed unqualified transgender activist organisations - including those with histories of paedophile scandals - to influence social work policy. Despite Cass & the Supreme Court judgment, there's still no serious attempts to prioritise safeguarding again for these vulnerable children.

Thank you TT for continuing to highlight the repeated failures of society safeguard these vulnerable children

www.transgendertrend.com/social-work-history-ideological-capture/

So concerning. These are the most vulnerable children in society, preyed on by various bad people and lessons don’t ever seem to be learned. Their safety and protection from malign influences needs to be paramount.

This bears some similarity to the behaviour of organisations involved with the child grooming rape scandals. Vulnerable groups of girls, many in care and seen as complicit in their own abuse. The adultification of children used as an excuse by those charged with protecting them to stand back and watch others using them for their own ends.

I thought exactly the same. And the celebrity abuse like Savile.

Thank you Mrs O.

This needs to be spread far and wide.

It's a tough read. It demonstrates so clearly how transactivist organisations with zero knowledge of child psychology, child development, parenting and safeguarding have been allowed to neutralise all the foundations of safeguarding children that we know. They've been enabled to position their beliefs in sex change and fetish as more important than safeguarding children with all these organisations then giving them access to children alienated from their families.

There are huge questions that regulators have to be held to account for, but until society recognises that children aren't born in the wrong body and that it's cruel to persuade children that of "sex change" is a desirable option for them, it'll be years before things change.

Shades of the post-war German paedophile-foster child experiment:

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-experiment-that-placed-foster-children-with-pedophiles

It doesn't matter how many times I see this article, it still blows my mind that this actually happened.

One of the most horrendous cases I've ever read is linked here, which I'll draw specific attention to: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/563855/teenager-starves-to-death-alone-in-emergency-accommodation

Social services were so keen to affirm a teenage girl's gender identity, they didn't notice she was starving herself to death. Once "gender" was mentioned, that's the only thing that mattered.

That’s horrific.

Shades of this too : https://www.youtube.com/live/bS05QjQi72k?si=5IJ0R0LKKqVjjBJA

Thank you MrsO, TwoLoons and Augar. Very tough reads but all about children being failed because the adults around them get caught up in an idea and forget about safeguarding. It’s terrifying that, even now, Social Services will be affirming children in care. It’s evil.

It was one of the things that alerted me to the safeguarding busting aspect of all this many years ago. I read about certain trans identified men making money from writing policies and "training" foster carers, staff in children's homes, social workers etc in transitioning children. As a teacher I knew how closely these children were monitored in schools because of their educational underachievement and vulnerability. It defied belief that trans activists were allowed anywhere near this vulnerable group.

Thanks, MrsO.

Reminded me of this:

https://unherd.com/2023/01/blackpools-forsaken-children/

Archive link for this:

archive.is/3BVZK

I'm a foster carer and a couple of years back we had a presentation at one of our compulsory training days from a trans organisation - I think gendered intelligence.

I wasn't quite so terfy as I am now but I have always been pretty sceptical and I went in on my guard but even so the speaker was very good. Engaging and personable and made it all sound so bloody reasonable. Why not let someone dress how they want, use pronouns - what's the harm.

There is a very high prevalence of "gender stuff" among kids in care - for all the obvious reasons. And most social workers and foster carers aren't evil - they are trying to do their best in a rotten underfunded system. All the guidance is framed around listening to the child. So children in care are in the weird situation of having much less control over the big things in their life than most but much more choice over other things.

So yeah that's how it happens.

And to add, if a child placed with me was gender questioning then I would be pretty concerned that if I was perceived as not supportive that they would be moved and possibly my approval to foster might be at risk. So most carers would be very cautious.

Social work training has form for this sort of thing. From PIE being invited to deliver "training " on courses, to local "activist" groups bring held up as examples of good voluntary work, when they were in effect running county lines, before county lines were recognised. That was one visit I declined to go on!

Sorry if I came over as blaming individual social workers / foster carers etc. That wasn't my intention. The story of Rachel Meade is an example of how badly individuals are treated if they try to challenge all this. Hence people being reluctant or even scared to speak out.
Gendered Intelligence was a massively powerful organisation. Hannah Barnes book "Time to Think" highlights their dangerous influence on GIDS and child healthcare for children, despite their role as an activist group.
I've seen a range of different "trans training" & one common denominator is that they're overtly manipulative. Usually presented by a trans individual, placing themselves at the centre of the discussions, thus making it impossible for anyone to challenge because it's so personal.
All my training as a trainer warns against that approach - especially when dealing with sensitive / emotive issues - safeguarding, bereavement etc. But too much trans training relies on it as it successfully silences legitimate challenge.

Just to make you aware there is a push back being organised from within the profession:

https://www.ebswa.org/