Mick Hartley

The latest in the Memaids saga:

Mermaids is refusing to let staff see a report into ousted boss Susie Green’s leadership because there are not “safe spaces” in which to read it. The scandal-hit child transgender charity’s workforce were due to receive the highly critical audit on Monday after the chief executive was forced out in a staff revolt.

Last weekend, a whistleblower told The Telegraph how Ms Green faced a staff backlash over her “incapable” leadership, culminating in the “nail in the coffin” report, seen by trustees.

But on Monday staff were told that the board of trustees felt “we can’t safely share the EDI [equality, diversity and inclusion] report today as we had planned”.

Citing media reports and an “unacceptable risk” to the authors, Mat Maddocks, a Mermaids trustee, wrote in the email that “our first priority is the well-being of our staff and given these events it isn’t possible to create the safe spaces for processing the report that are vital”.

Couldn't they maybe sneak off to their (gender-neutral) toilets to read the report? They're safe spaces, surely.

Further whistleblowers have now come forward. A second insider told The Telegraph: “Staff are very upset and outraged that our well-being is being used as an excuse to bury the report, when clearly it’s all about Mermaids wanting to protect what’s left of its reputation.”

The source said calls between senior management and staff on Monday morning “got very heated and hostile” and staff “don’t believe the report will ever see the light of day”.

Oh dear. It's not looking good.