Maya Forstater

@OwenJones84 just loves to intone endlessly about being on "the right side of history" but it took just 3 months for NSPCC to confirm that on this issue he wasn't just on the wrong side of history but also ethics, employment law & childrens' safeguarding.

Concerning that it took them that long really.

Well, they would have had to investigate before sacking him and that takes time. I expect he was suspended during any investigation. Due process must always be followed.

Yes of course, but I was really referring to this tweet, which they didn’t seem to need to follow due process before publishing...https://twitter.com/nspcc/status/1138858597390147586?s=21 …

It shouldn’t take 3 months to come to the conclusion that raising concerns about child safeguarding is not on the wrong side of child safeguarding, but if your “priority” is not child safeguardoing, but instead to support staff, then perhaps it does.

It didn't, he appealed the decision hence the time. According to the Mirror article.

Ok yes. That’s really what you would hope for, and if they had made that decision clear at the time that would maybe have helped people like OJ who interpreted child safeguarding concerns as homophobia.

The only sensible thing the NSPCC could have have done is to immediately suspend and say nothing until the dismissal and appeal process is finished. That they didn’t and appeared to conflate genuine concerns with homophobic bullying is worrying.