UNITED KINGDOM
The Telegraph
By Victoria Ward
1:11PM BST 26 Sep 2012
A child protection campaigner contacted Michael Gove’s office to raise “serious concerns” about the school of teenager Megan Stammers several months ago, it has emerged.
Lucy Duckworth said she wrote to the education secretary, warning that she feared the Bishop Bell School’s child protection policies were “inadequate”.
The former consultant for the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said the Eastbourne school was “extremely hostile” when she wrote several times asking to see its child protection policy and claimed that staff refused to send her a copy.
She told the BBC: “I’ve written to (the school) and several other officials including Michael Gove, and Stephen Lloyd MP, several times since February this year and stated their child protection policies have been inadequate throughout this time.”
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