The beginning of the end of safeguarding?

en staff  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Jan 2020
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The beginning of the end of safeguarding?

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A United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) document from 2009, updated in 20181, appears to be the driving force behind the end of effective safeguarding of children. The document teaches masturbation to small children and promotes gender ideology.

The 140-page treatise encourages early exposure to the details of reproduction and self-stimulation. Binary humanity is accepted as an outdated idea.2

Social engineering

However, the document is not just a ‘harm reduction’ policy. Page 84 mentions ‘negative social norms’ and how they need challenging. With no sense of irony (for something that promotes transgender rights) it notes that women can be most affected by ‘negative norms’.

According to its own introduction: ‘UNESCO works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values’ and to ‘building peace in the minds of men and women’. Yet the values they hope to create undermine family, and are unscientific with regard to sex based differences. In true Orwellian fashion, some ‘commonly shared’ values are more equal than others.

There are numerous other references that give licence to the most explicit sexuality teaching. It challenges the notion that parents are the primary educators of their children. Indeed, section 6 is written to counteract opposition to the guidance. It aims to ensure teachers and parents are ‘desensitised’ as they would likely push back against the permissive education outlined.

A BBC transition?

Emily Maitlis on Newsnight in December grappled with a professional from the Tavistock Clinic in London. There Maitlis questioned the idea that a society could arrive at the position where children can be medicated and later mutilated to render them infertile.

In what Twitter users called an ‘about time’ moment, the BBC became gender critical in a series of reports that finally gave voice to detransitioners (those who have found they are not happy after taking medication or having surgery to modify their bodies).

Similarly Justin Webb grilled Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, on 9 December who seemed unable to say that sex was binary.

Nevertheless these were lone actors standing up to a pantechnicon crammed full of sexuality ideology threatening to obliterate the rights and safety of women, men, and children. If UNESCO filled the vehicle, there have since been a stream of willing volunteers lined up to drive it over those who believe what was once thought to be obvious truths.

Disastrous policy

Questions asked of Warkwickshire County remain unanswered with Council by en safeguarding concerns seemingly being ignored. Despite lengthy investigation, it appears that Jonny Hunt, the writer of their sex education curriculum ‘All about me’, has no qualifications in the field in which he ‘consults’. Yet, having worked in sexual health for just a few years, he adopted the label ‘consultant’ and wrote an explicit curriculum.3

The outcome of the UNESCO guidance can be expressed thus: if you want to hide a tree, put it in a wood; if you want to hide an abused child, sexualise every child. Current safeguarding notes that children who use sexualised language or masturbate in public, are concerning. Yet all children will know about these things now due to UNESCO’s influence. This is terrible news, not just for every child, but especially for those who are abused.

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