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Imagine being in your first week of social work training and being told that some of your fellow students might be there to gain access to vulnerable children. Shocking, right? But this social worker’s point applies anywhere adults work with children. Some people will seek out those roles for the wrong reasons. And the person whose behaviour you need to question might be the nicest person you know. She also makes an important point about why safeguarding starts with having a clear sense of what’s normal and what isn’t. Once that boundary starts to blur, it’s easier for someone to cross it without being challenged. I wish I’d seen this video years ago. I can think of times when something felt off and I kept quiet because I worried I might be wrong or cause offence. Thanks @JournalistJill for highlighting it.

🚨 NEW: ‘Perhaps only at Oxford University could the unacceptable so often be considered acceptable.’ I worked with the Daily Mail’s Paul Bracchi on this profile of Oxford University lecturer Matt Rattley. How did a gifted young academic - with a first-class degree, academic prizes and prize-winning essays become the lecturer who wears enormous prosthetic breasts to teach students at one of the world’s most prestigious universities? A talented musician, too, who played bassoon with Somerville’s musicians, performing works by Beethoven, Poulenc and Bach. And how did behaviour that has prompted repeated complaints come to be defended, by some, in the name of ‘freedom of expression’? This is a story not just about one Oxford lecturer, but about an institution - and the questions it appears unwilling to confront. And perhaps the most troubling question of all is why so many people inside Oxford appear afraid to speak out. Read below 👇