tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post5569496550676893683..comments2024-01-25T09:28:56.610+00:00Comments on Confessions of a skeptic: Definitions of sexual abuseJonathan Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00527063732905729010noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-43451582722541862972011-03-24T10:25:19.795+00:002011-03-24T10:25:19.795+00:00FGM is a bully and a few ex colleuges suffered a g...FGM is a bully and a few ex colleuges suffered a great loss namely there jobs when they stood up to her. She will make your life Absolute Hell if you attempt to criticise her or stand up to her. She has had a complete free reign. Also I have been told that the original report opened with "Little evidence of Leadership from the top". What happened to this part of the report ?? back at the beginning of the yearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-11143218061520294552011-03-22T21:42:11.637+00:002011-03-22T21:42:11.637+00:00It seems to me that St Augustine's is in a hug...It seems to me that St Augustine's is in a hugely messy position because of the arrogant and misguided self-belief of two very seriously mentally ill people who are now beginning to drag others down with them.<br />Professor Anne Hemingway could very easily see her reputation, built up through many years of service, eroded and her good name tainted by association with Frances Gumley Mason's lies and deceit. <br />Fee-paying parents have been lied to and the law has been broken. And what has been the response? To insult everyone's intelligence trying to confuse us by putting out two reports together, to write a patronising letter aimed at discouraging parents from reading either report properly, and in this letter to trivialise the failings. Not to offer a word of apology or any real explanation in layman's terms but instead to distract with terms like 'central register', which means nothing to most parents. <br />And only under pressure from Mr West does she offer a forum for parents, and even then we receive a similarly patronising message through parent-mail,as if it's none of it anything so out of the ordinary,and cynically a Friday night is chosen in the hope everyone will be just wanting to put their feet up and not fancy turning out for this meeting where inevitably black will be made to look white and more half-truths will be told. <br />It's really enough to make you despair of everything the school is supposed to stand for.<br />This is shameful behaviour and a piss-poor example to the girls in the school. <br />Frances Gumley Mason, are there no depths to which you will not sink in the service of your own ego, nor anyone you will not trample to get what you want?<br />Shame on you! Shame, shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-50608342700143846742011-03-22T19:22:25.538+00:002011-03-22T19:22:25.538+00:00But let's not forget - a woman needs a man lik...But let's not forget - a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. <br /><br />Gummers believes this according to a woman's hour interview in which she was a non 'saucy' contributor. <br /><br />So what does this quote say about Andy (Chancey Gardener) Gumley Mason?<br /><br />Grief!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-33545692363702745452011-03-22T18:13:17.145+00:002011-03-22T18:13:17.145+00:0004.47 getting children ready for school! I don'...04.47 getting children ready for school! I don't think so more than likely getting dear Andy ready for school, the unofficial headmaster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-46974390140087501622011-03-22T10:04:14.451+00:002011-03-22T10:04:14.451+00:00The Trouble with the Law &
The Scale of Chil...<b>The Trouble with the Law & <br />The Scale of Child Abuse Problem</b><br /><br />It is estimated that the average career perpetrator abuses 180+ children in a lifetime. (Police)<br /><br />1 in 6 children are sexually abused before 16yrs (Lucy Faithfull Foundation) which of course does not include physical or emotional abuse. The recent Dispatches programme (Lessons in Hate and Violence) and the failure of the Inspectorate to see any of the violence being dispensed against pupils was quite an eye opener. <br /><br />40% of all sex crimes reported to the police involve children (Home Office)<br /><br />This figure is of huge concern given that children account for only 27% of the population.<br /><br />Only 10% of child abuse crimes are reported to the Police (Lancet report Nov 2008) <br /><br />Only 5% of those reach court. <br /><br />Only 2% result in convictions. <br /><br />Adult rape achieves the dismal conviction rate of 5%, with the judiciary under constant pressure to raise this rate. <br /><br /><b>No wonder the “Soft Box” on the CRB returns is so important.</b> <br /><br />What has changed and still needs more change is an understanding of the extent to which abuse of children is an epidemic in this country.<br /><br /><b>EXTRACT from Sunday Times Article 25th October 2009 CHILD ABUSE – "The camera doesn’t lie."</b> <i>Home Office figures for 2007-8 show that 40% of recorded sexual offences in the UK in that period were against children under 18: a quarter were under 10. In more than 800 cases, the victim was under four. And Ministry of Justice statistics reveal that in 2007, 1,178 people were found guilty of sexual offences against children.”</i> (conviction rates are only 2% which sadly offers perpetrators an excellent risk/reward ratio) <br /><br />Increase in Notifications under the Education Acts – now called Referrals under the SVGA 2006, and made to the Independent Safeguarding Authority - these are the statutory documents you recall, that St Benedict's and St Augustine’s failed to return to the DfE (at the time) following incidents at the school that were discovered by the ISI: <br /><br />2001 1,007 <br />2003 1,147 +12%<br />2004 1,362 +26%<br />2005 2,092 +53% <br />2006 2,784 +33% <br />2007 4,265 +53%<br />2008 8,728 +104%<br /><br />What we are seeing is not necessarily an increase in abuse, but the extent to which incidents in education have in the past been been under reported, combined with more schools becoming safeguarding aware. <br /><br />Effective and well managed safeguarding is vital. And it is the role of parents to hold schools to account. To do this it is vital to understand the child protection policy of the school. Unless a school commits in writing to report all incidents of abuse to the LADO (15.2.1. of the Ealing Safeguarding Board Guidance) a school has no need to refer at all, because England does not have mandatory reporting of abuse. It is one of the very few first world countries not to have mandatory reporting. It is therefore vital to have this written undertaking in all school policies – otherwise parents, and more importantly children have nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-86243073997117547222011-03-22T09:54:20.102+00:002011-03-22T09:54:20.102+00:0004.47 I despise your methods of personal vindictiv...04.47 <i>I despise your methods of personal vindictive attack but, as one of your fellow bloggers (aka you) said, what other method is there? I will run that gauntlet.</i><br /><br />You are referring to my post - I am not West, but I am familiar with what he is doing, this subject matter, and blogging. It is the only solution to those schools which will not engage on this subject and have never engaged, until one metaphorically lays siege to the gates. <br /><br />What Mr West is doing is a response to the entirely self-inflicted state of affairs in which the St Augustine’s administration finds itself as a result of treating 'safeguarding' as a tiresome optional extra that requires little attention (coz it doesn’t happen here! - except something did happen there.). <br /><br />How much more inept, bone idle and law breaking can the administration of St Augustine’s be on safeguarding. And then the school has the effrontery to complain about its treatment following the ISI dissing the standard of safeguarding in the place. <br /><br />You could not make it up. And here you are attempting to defend the indefensible and sadly you will not be the last individual to attempt such foolishness. <br /><br />But you also do not stick to your word. This tells us the standards to which you, and probably your children operate because let’s not forget honesty is learned behaviour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-77600458218168169592011-03-22T08:42:31.035+00:002011-03-22T08:42:31.035+00:00Anonymous 04:47
I shall post your identity when y...Anonymous 04:47<br /><br />I shall post your identity when you reveal it However, I shall publish no more of your comments unless and until you reveal your identity as you promised.Jonathan Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00527063732905729010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518202135348193859.post-2129543914036233352011-03-22T07:07:29.908+00:002011-03-22T07:07:29.908+00:00Mr West,
You put the posts up on your blog at irr...Mr West,<br /><br />You put the posts up on your blog at irregular times! Yesterday I posted in the morning and it did not appear until the afternoon. I posted at 1am this morning and now at 7am, there is no sign of my post.<br /><br />I know it is probably because you are sleeping and I know you have probably had nightmares about sexual abuse, but I need to be assured that you will post my identity if I choose to reveal it. It is probably the most unwise decision in my life but I am drawn to your website like a moth to a flame.<br /><br />There is something about your dream of ridding abuse in schools through regulation that compels me to continue contributing. I am drawn to your dream world and you are the knight in shining armour in that world.<br /><br />I despise your methods of personal vindictive attack but, as one of your fellow bloggers (aka you) said, what other method is there? I will run that gauntlet.<br /><br />I just need your promise that you will post the answer when I reveal my identity. I must go now as I have to get the children ready to go to school.<br /><br />Anonymous 04.47Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com