by Jan Cosgrove, National Secretary of Fair Play for Children
The Football Association’s Independent Report into Non-Recent Child Sexual Allegations in Football (Clive Sheldon QC) deals with allegations from two decades and before, mainly based on testimonies of young men and boys in the professional game. Indeed, so far as I can tell, there is no mention of the issue as regards the amateur where the story is far from told.
Rather than recently, Fair Play looked at this issue in the 1990’s as part of our Child Protection in Playwork Programme. This developed from an incident reported by a…
In 1972, the then Bishop of Stepney, Trevor Huddleston, wrote a Letter to ‘The Times’ following the deaths by drowning of two nine year-old boys in a canal because they had nowhere safe to play.
From that event, Fair Play for Children arose, to campaign and help realise The Child’s Right to Play. I’m writing to ask you as recorded Members and Supporters of Fair Play for Children over the years to work with us to RELAUNCH that Campaign.
We are in the throes/wake of a Pandemic where children and young people have been deprived of essential access to Play…
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by Jan Cosgrove, Editor
West Sussex County Council’s Cabinet completed the process started by the Early Help Review on Tuesday by agreeing to retain just 12 of the County’s 42 Family Centres, which developed from Labour’s nationwide Sure Start programme under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
In a year or two which have seen both Covid and a devastating Ofsted review of the County’s Children’s Services, where these were placed under a Government-appointed Commissioner from Hampshire County Council, these services have been placed under the closest scrutiny and pressure, coupled with a severe financial crisis for the authority.
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Hi Jan,
It’s been a long time coming. If you recall some of us WASPIs met you on the train back to Bognor quite a few years ago, as we’d been at a WASPI Rally up at Westminster.
After three or four long years of trying to achieve action via the Ombudsman, this has culminated into a lengthy report by the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman. Unfortunately, this action kept being pushed back due to the court action being taken, appeals and further appeals since 2018, by other significant campaigners. We are now at this juncture. The report is extensive…
by Jan Cosgrove, Editor
In 1972, the former Bognor Regis Urban District Council decided to construct a residence, Flax Mean, at Felpham, for elderly residents needing supported living. The plans did not include baths of showers for each resident, these were to be communal. Arun Council replaced BR UDC in 1974.
There has been understandable pressure for individual facilities, Arun’s reply was to provide outdoor showers which these good folk have had to use in all weathers and conditions. Naturally, residents have pressed for a better deal, up-to-date facilities one would take for granted in the 21st Century.
One might…
