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Martyn Luther King, ‘in the end it is the silence of our friends we remember. Not the actions of our enemies’ voiceless survivor of PPDA/Social Ser/Family Court

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

@RachelKearton @SunitaGamblin Interesting perspective. I’ve found marrying into the Police destroyed my life & damaged others in it. From where I’m standing there is no responsibility or accountability & six years on despite me making several of you aware of serious issues I’m still playing email ping pong

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

@CPhilpOfficial @fionagoddarduk But you don’t appear to care less about PPDA? Why?

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

https://t.co/YWHeec0UPT. Maybe helpful to some. Depends on the abuser. 🙄

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

@domdyer70 💯

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@domdyer70 THANK YOU Ricky. Am desperate to help them and skint ! 😂 @rickygervais

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

@telfordsurvior @bulliesinblue @Telford_Escaper A real credit to her. You are so right. Boys and men matter too and are so affected by VAWG too. Thank you for speaking up. Very brave.

[Josh @telfordsurvior]

They say ‘it happened years ago, leave it alone.’

Tell that to my mum @Telford_Escaper who still wakes up screaming at night.
Tell that to me, who grew up knowing I was created from her abuse.

Grooming doesn’t ‘expire’. Trauma doesn’t disappear. And silence only lets it happen again.

I’m here to break the silence. Because survivors matter. Because justice matters.

My mum was just 13 in this photo after giving birth to me.

#SurvivorSpeaks #EndGrooming #BornFromRape #MenSurviveToo #groominggangsuk

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

@bulliesinblue And domestic abuse and homicide

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

@bulliesinblue VERY true !

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@Martina @bulliesinblue 💯

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Lock him up and chuck the key

[Michael Morgan @mikecmorgan]

A Met Police officer has been jailed for 25 years for multiple rapes. Dion Arnold, 33, used his uniform and warrant card to prey on vulnerable women.

Power attracts predators. The real question: why does vetting keep failing to stop them? https://t.co/hjyC1zqHj7

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

@mikecmorgan @bulliesinblue They don’t walk in with a sign saying I’m a predator but once 🚩are shown they’re consistently ignored, enabled & covered up. If you don’t gather evidence, charge & convict nothing is on record. No Clare’s law can be done etc system is shite also -have to wait till harm is done

[Diana Stroh @bulliesinblue]

How long before evidence shows the authorities failed to notice or act upon concerns about these two abusers…

[PoliceWatchUK @PoliceWatch666]

Former PC jailed for targeting vulnerable women for sex
https://t.co/HSxJvcQeOG

[Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland]

Lily is looking for a new home.

Due to unforeseen circumstances Lily is looking for a new loving, forever home.

Lily is a 9 year old Domestic Shorthair Tabby.

Lilly had to move to a house with two other cats which hasn't worked out.

The stress and threat of being with the other two cats has had an effect on Lily as she has started to be reactive, will hiss and try to scratch which she never did before.

She is not suitable for a house with young children and lots of noise. She needs a home with no other animals and people who understand cats in order for her to build her trust and come out of her shell.

Lily loves attention, she is a very affectionate cat on her own terms, but can be a little spicey if not ready for interaction.

She would benefit from people who can give her time. To sleep she loves a comfy cushion on the sofa or nestling between pillows on the bed.

Lily is spayed, microchipped, registered with the Vet, no medical problems,. She can be left on her own, she eats wet food.

Lily will come with Carry Box, Scratch Box, Scratch Tree & Electronic Feeder.

Lily is an indoor/outdoor cat.

For anymore information please email [email protected]

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Khyra Ishaq was born in 2000 and grew up in the Handsworth area of Birmingham. In December 2007, her mother Angela Gordon withdrew her from school. Khyra was seven-years-old. Nobody in authority saw her again for six months.

Teachers at her school had been raising concerns about Khyra's wellbeing as far back as March 2006. Two worried members of the public also contacted the relevant agencies. Their concerns were not acted on. Social workers did not listen to school staff. Professional agencies lost sight, the subsequent review found, of their responsibilities to protect Khyra and focused instead on the rights of her mother and her partner.

Despite four visits to the family home by five different officials, including social workers, police and local authority home-schooling officials, nobody intervened.

The serious case review later found that her removal from school led to her becoming isolated, and that vital attempts by agencies to see her were hampered as access became further restricted. It noted that current legislation for home education assessment was weak, and that the situation was particularly advantageous for parents who wished to conceal abuse.

Six months after she was taken out of school, Khyra looked like a living skeleton. She weighed just two stone nine pounds when she was found at her home. She died on 17 May 2008. The official cause of death was a chest infection, brought on by months of deliberate starvation.

Her mother Angela Gordon was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Her partner Junaid Abuhamza was jailed indefinitely for public protection. Both pleaded guilty to manslaughter and to child cruelty charges relating to five other children in the home.

The serious case review concluded that Khyra's death was preventable. A High Court judge later found that she would still be alive if social workers had done their jobs properly. Birmingham City Council's children's services department was described in subsequent Ofsted reports as a national disgrace.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

TREASURY FIRES WHISTLEBLOWER, LOSES IN COURT AND ... IGNORES THE COURT

David Owen spent 18 years at HM Treasury (@hmtreasury) as Head of National Insurance Policy. Solid career. Then in the run up to the 2011 budget he noticed something off.

A tax break for small businesses kept getting watered down in the paperwork. He believed colleagues had overstated the risks to kill it off and that the advice going to Ministers might not have been objective.

... That is a polite way of describing a breach of the Civil Service Code.

Owen raised it. Civil servants are supposed to do that. It is in the job description right above wear a lanyard.

What happened next will shock nobody who has read literally any other whistleblower story.

He was summoned to a disciplinary hearing out of nowhere. Three days later he was dismissed, officially for reasons the Treasury says were completely unrelated to the disclosure.

Completely unrelated. Sure.

Owen took it to an Employment Tribunal. The tribunal did not buy the unrelated reasons defence. It ruled his dismissal was seriously flawed in a number of important respects and said the Treasury did not act reasonably. It ordered him reinstated.

The Treasury, custodian of the nation's finances and apparently also its sense of irony, ignored its own court order. No reinstatement. No explanation offered.

The case dragged on until Owen was awarded £142,000 in compensation. The Treasury reportedly spent up to £500,000 fighting him in court. That is half a million pounds of public money spent proving a point the courts said was wrong, on top of the £142,000 it then had to pay anyway.

This sits inside a much bigger pattern. Around the same period the National Audit Office found 88 percent of public sector compromise agreements it sampled contained confidentiality clauses, while the Treasury had approved over a thousand special severance payments totalling more than £28 million in three years, with no proper monitoring of how many came with a gag attached.

So the department that writes the rules on prudent spending burned roughly £642,000 in total to avoid admitting a senior official was right.

Owen's own response at the time was simple. He said the just course would have been to take him back without the long costly process. Astonishing he had to point that out.

Sources:
@guardian @Telegraph @BBCNews

[Bear skin @Defendergenes]

https://t.co/IaHqeBrCxd. Sounds familiar 🤷‍♂️