The most vulnerable children in the country are being failed by the authorities entrusted with their care. Local authorities are outsourcing the development of guidance to activist groups or allowing a child to transition without consulting anyone.

faklj A history of ideological capture -the leadership of social work ... were consciously allowing and encouraging the adoption of unevidenced and harmful beliefs and practices that denied sex and promoted gender identity instead.

one implication is particularly significant: there is now a clear legal obligation to recognise biological sex, and no corresponding legal duty to treat individuals in accordance with self-declared gender identity. ....social workers must now explicitly consider biological sex in their decision-making.