A social worker who was suspended over her gender critical views has been awarded almost £58,000 in damages from Westminster city council and Social Work England.
In what lawyers described as an unprecedented move by a court to award exemplary damages against a regulator, an employment tribunal called for both the council and the watchdog to train their staff in the principles of freedom of speech.
The people who rabidly defend trans ideology are peculiarly horrible to people who disobey their orders.
Both respondents must also pay aggravated damages.
Aggravated damages are awarded when a party has behaved in a "high-handed, malicious, insulting or oppressive manner" in committing the act of discrimination.
We’re all familiar with that type of “considerable animosity.” People who were friends yesterday spitting poison at you because you can’t believe six impossible things before breakfast.
Social Work England, in its failure to apologise to Ms Meade after the liability judgment, had "demonstrated an unwillingness to accept that its actions were unacceptable".
Isn’t it gratifying to see that someone finally gets it??
The full implications of the judgment will take some time to emerge, but it is likely to be be seismic for the social work profession. Its timing hot on the heels of the Cass Review could hardly be better.
Very good news. I wonder if those organisations will double down and appeal?
While this is progress, I do worry that some of the gains in the UK in recent times will be undone by a change in Government. The arc of history swings both ways.
It’s like dominoes falling in slow motion.
Slowly but surely. The truth will out.
Very good news. I wonder if those organisations will double down and appeal?
While this is progress, I do worry that some of the gains in the UK in recent times will be undone by a change in Government. The arc of history swings both ways.