Question Submitted to Dorset Council - People and Health Scrutiny Committee - 6th February 2025

Women of Dorset recently asked the following question at Dorset Council People and Health Scrutiny Committee:- 

In light of data from NHS England indicating that Dorset ICB has the highest child referral rate (per 1000 head) to NHS child gender clinics, can Clare Sutton, and Sunita Khattra-Hall assure the committee that all Dorset Council/PDSCP/DSCP resources and training have been reviewed, updated and aligned with the findings of the CASS review, KCSIE statutory guidance and the government’s commitment to implementing the recommendations made.

The meeting, question and response can be viewed from 11.05 to 13.56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5tjtaAFEyU

Our supporting email was as follows:




We were very concerned that Dorset Council had relaunched a training course, which was subject to our ICO appeal in 2024.  The concern is that Dorset Council made an active decsision to relaunch the course knowing that parents cannot view or attend the course/contents and are hiding behind an ICO decision to justify this.  

We OBJECT! 

It is worth pointing out that the commissioned provider of this course is Space Youth Project, who were subject to a complaint to the Charity Commission last year for promoting an evented called ' The CASS Review Will Kill. The complaint was upheld.




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