MissJay

Social Enterpreneur | Bespoke Environmental Community Education Project Writer | Safeguarding

[MissJay @_EcoKids]

“The Department for Education are aware that, in some instances, not all incidents that meet the definition of serious harm are notified.”

[Ren @Renmakesmusic]

I was told I couldn’t do what I’ve done without a record label or without having first done hundreds of shows or without support from XYZ company - I got a number one album and they didn’t even play a song from it on the radio after the countdown🤣 never accept “it can’t be done”

[Catholic Survivors England @RCsurvivors]

Bishop Oakley stepped back from public ministry last autumn but it is a matter of concern that he is still listed as being a member of the Strategic Council for Catholic Safeguarding
https://t.co/oxtknvgHoA

[Mark Lambert - Catholic Unscripted Podcast @AuditeInsulae]

Bishop David Oakley of Northampton Diocese has been absent from his office for some time. Staffordshire police have now announced he has been charged with two counts of rape a female under 16. https://t.co/eA2A4HSMb0

[ITV News @itvnews]

One of UK's largest nursery chains served with safeguarding notice
https://t.co/s2Bxk76WvE

[Lucy Wilson @Lucieer07]

For several months, a vulnerable child (not my own) lived in our home.

We didn’t ask the local authority for financial support. We asked for education and engagement.

What shocked me was that the LA’s youth worker appeared to focus on opening a bank account and preparing for Universal Credit, whilst education remained unsecured.

This was despite the local authority’s own Child in Need assessment recording that the child had received a Conclusive Grounds decision through the National Referral Mechanism as a victim of modern slavery, alongside ongoing concerns about exploitation.

When I formally complained about the lack of education, the council upheld my complaint and apologised for failing to provide it.

But by then, valuable time had already been lost. Their life within our home had collapsed as we could no longer carry the increasing risk.

During my work on youth provision with the #OU’s Open Justice Policy Clinic, I saw youth work described as building relationships, trust and opportunities.

What I witnessed here felt very different.

A vulnerable teenager saying “no” appeared to become the end of the discussion rather than the beginning of a more creative effort to engage them.

Somewhere along the way, safeguarding seems to have become confused with simply accepting a vulnerable teenager’s wishes.

Whilst respecting autonomy is important, when a child is out of #education, at risk of exploitation and known to services, can we really call it #safeguarding if we simply accept their decision to disengage?

We are failing some of our most vulnerable young people.

[Andy @AndyNelson1977]

This is a really important watch. The curtain has been lifted - we see what's been going on and it has to STOP ✋️

[Dr David Ruttenberg, PhD, FRSA, FIoHE, AFHEA, HSRF @davidruttenberg]

The New York Times AND
The Wall Street Journal BOTH
Published me on ABA in one week.

Here's what I said--
And why it HAD to be said.

https://t.co/pMhQrtorEv

[Kate Cronin @Katie_Cronin]

I don’t know what on earth this woman is thinking but as someone who covers domestic abuse cases daily, this is an absolutely appalling way to frame the issue

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

As a government, we acknowledge the role that the state played in historic forced adoption including the harm and trauma that followed.

We will deliver both the apology and the support that those affected deserve.

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

If we invested in early intervention with the same urgency we show after a tragedy, we'd save children long before the headlines ever appear.

I chatted with @NickFerrariLBC today on LBC about this horrific story, I found myself coming back to one uncomfortable truth:

We knew so much, yet we did so little. The offenders are responsible for their crimes and must be held fully accountable. But when warning signs are missed, concerns are not acted upon, and opportunities to intervene are lost, we also have to ask difficult questions of the systems designed to protect children.

Too often, these cases become debates about the demographics of offenders. That misses the point. The real lesson is that abuse is often “hidden in plain sight”, focus on this.

If we focus on recognising patterns, responding to concerns and strengthening safeguarding practice, we gain valuable tools to protect children. If we focus solely on demographics, we risk learning nothing.

A DBS check is not a safeguarding strategy. Safeguarding is about professional curiosity, recognising physical and behavioural indicators, sharing information, and acting when concerns arise.

Physical signs of abuse must trigger action. Every delay gives an abuser more time. Every missed opportunity can mean another child suffers harm.

The challenge for all agencies is not simply responding after a tragedy, but building systems that intervene earlier, when the signs first emerge. Children should not have to become headlines before they are protected.

[Jim Gamble @JimGamble_INEQE]

A schoolgirl joking in a @BBC interview that the alternative to social media is “staring at a wall” has somehow triggered adults into mocking her. Appalling. Proof kids don’t need social media to be belittled. She was brilliant. Some adults need to grow up. #SocialMediaBan

[Emma-Jane Taylor (E-J) 🇬🇧 @ejtayloruk]

I was grateful to speak with @jhansonradio today on @LBC about the Naked Bike Ride, the serious safeguarding concerns it raises, and why I began this campaign in the first place.

This conversation matters. The Naked Bike Ride continues to present blurred boundaries that put children at risk, and blurred boundaries are exactly where harm can occur. We cannot keep looking away.

LINK TO FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/FblERU07ne

[Andy @AndyNelson1977]

The @ICARSBanRandS United Nations Evidence Survey is now live. Parents, especially #SEND families, this is your chance to detail the harms done to your kids through restraint, seclusion, isolation & more, and push for ACCOUNTABILITY in the system.

[ICARS (Int. Coal. Against Restraint and Seclusion) @ICARSBanRandS]

GIFT ARTICLE
Children as young as four locked away for hours in school 'seclusion rooms'

The 100 accounts were collected by the International Coalition Against Restraint and Seclusion, which plans to submit them to the United Nations in the autumn as evidence that the UK Government has failed to comply with a 2023 UN recommendation that seclusion be banned as a disciplinary measure in schools.
https://t.co/5IKIXM3HwW

[Andy Leary-May @learymay]

This began with my son. Six months on from the Mossbourne safeguarding review, I’m left asking: what does it take to create change?

https://t.co/bbCaJoKdTC

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

This is what this scumbag said when Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a WHITE police officer.

Today, for the killing of Henry Novak by a Brown Sikh man, he calls the British public to "rage".

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Nigel Farage is not a decent man, and neither is Stephen Yaxley‑Lennon. The same is true of those who have gathered outside Southampton Police Station in open defiance of the wishes of Henry’s father Mark, a man who has shown more dignity and decency in his grief than any of them.
Decent people will stand together with Mark and his family and respect their wishes. They will want answers of course, but they will also reject the opportunists, political or otherwise who try to use the Nowak's loss to divide us. #Farage

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

As the interim dean of the School of Communication and Journalism, I can tell you that whatever this sloppy snark is, it isn’t journalism, and we hold our students to a higher standard. Do a modicum
of research, would you.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

There is clearly a legitimate case for social services to remove the baby from this woman the moment it is born. She is plainly very sick, and the baby would not be safe in her care.