Mick Hartley

What is the NSPCC for if it can't say "male teachers should not be supervising girls changing" ?

Trying to pass the buck to the EHRC and DFE is despicable.

The Equality Act must never displace safeguarding.

There is no reason to remove this guidance. https://t.co/ZPTGNd7XLl

— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) September 14, 2026

Article here:

Male teachers will be allowed to supervise female pupils while they get changed at swimming pools or sports centres under new NSPCC guidance for schools.

The child protection charity has removed a policy that adults supervising pupils while they change should be the same sex as the children from its latest safeguarding briefing.

Campaigners and MPs last night called on the NSPCC to reinstate the policy, and accused the charity of making the change under pressure from transgender activists.

The NSPCC’s previous long-standing policy said: ‘Adults who are supervising children getting changed should be of the same gender as them.’ 

But in the children’s charity’s latest ‘safeguarding considerations for changing rooms’ briefing, this line has been removed entirely….

Women’s rights campaigners said that instead of changing the reference from ‘gender’ to ‘biological sex’ – in line with April 2025’s Supreme Court ruling – the NSPCC ‘came to its own decision’ to remove the safeguarding guidance entirely.