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mole at the counter's avatar

Two years of 'investigation' over some perfectly and reasonable critical images and articles.

Sounds like something different to me - Something one may have heard rumours about in eastern Europe, pre-1989 perhaps...

But no, this is 2022 and the morally bankrupt and hideously sinister tendrils of the GenderStasi out in full force... again.

For now, at least.

Thank you to the 'SW' and to Sarah and the team for not taking this dreadful, targeted authoritarianism lying down.

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BigJim's avatar

SWE is overseen by the Professional Standards Authority. In theory, in its yearly report Ito Parliament, the PSA should be noting this case and grading the fitness-to-practice hearing provision as, at the very least, needing improvement, and reasonably, not-fit-for-purpose.

If an Employment Tribunal hearing brings SWE’s activities under more public scrutiny, the PSA will struggle to report favourably on SWE without risking its own position.

Whether the Government could-be-bothered is a different matter. The PSA is effectively answerable to the Privy Council and the Lord President of the Privy Council is…Penny Mordaunt, who doesn’t have a fine reputation for being supportive of women-and-children’s safeguarding which is a core requirement for social work.

But there would be every possibility that this case would trigger a reform of SWE.

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