The Care Inspectorate urgently needs advice: will Noddy's story help?
- Administrator
- Jun 29
- 4 min read
On April 16th 2025, the Supreme Court confirmed what the Equality 2010 Act always stated, that there are two sexes and that sex is a protected characteristic. This means that the concept of gender identity has no material meaning in terms of the law; it is not a protected characteristic. This is in addition to the fact that there is no evidence to suggest that gender identity even exists.
Furthermore, any attempt to define gender identity results only with activists stating entirely circular and meaningless definitions. The fact that the Scottish Government and Scottish public services have doubled down and have stated that they are waiting for the EHRC Guidance, suggests either a wilful ignorance of the facts, a wilful denial of the law, or both. Either way, the upending of our public services via the promotion of a false concept has resulted in those public services functioning in a manner entirely counter to their purpose. This is sobering and worrying to witness. The very services which were put in place to safeguard children are now creating safeguarding risks. An example is The Care Inspectorate Guidance for children and young people’s services on the inclusion of transgender including non-binary young people.
When the guidance was recently updated in light of the Supreme Court ruling on April 16th, ScotPAG wrote a letter of complaint to the Care Inspectorate as the guidance continues to promote the concept of gender identity including the acceptance of the ‘transgender child’. Our critique of the guidance pointed out a number of concerns including:
• The guidance fails to engage with systemic research
• The guidance demonstrates a misunderstanding of the Cass Review
• The guidance is full of misinformation
• The guidance demonstrates a lack of knowledge about child development.
See our letter of complaint here:
The Care Inspectorate’s reply can only be described as a failure of our regulatory body to understand what real safeguarding looks like, and they have chosen to promote ideology over evidenced based research. The Care Inspectorate has failed do its homework. It has failed to pay close attention to a significant body of research including the Cass Report which highlights the harms of affirming ‘care’, the harms of social transition, and the harm of promoting an un-evidenced influential ideology in education and social services. This is a complete failure to protect vulnerable children and teenagers. See the Care Inspectorate reply to ScotPAG:
ScotPAG would like to help the Care Inspectorate out. We believe that safeguarding children has always been essential for our public services, and to aid the Care Inspectorate
in its comprehension of role and function, we will keep things simple and understandable, indeed at a level that even a five year old could grasp. We hope that the moral to Noddy's tale of going dangerously astray by failing to follow the correct guidance, will ring a bell, and that, like Noddy, the members of the Inspectorate will be relieved to find the correct means to better governance, for the sake of children's safety. So we proudly present:
Noddy’s Misadventure with the Wrong Highway Code
Noddy hopped into his car, his bell jingling on his blue hat. “Parp parp!” went his car as he waved to his friend Big-Ears, who was watering his toadstool house.
“Be careful, Noddy!” called Big-Ears. “Follow the Highway Code, and you’ll be the best driver in Toyland!”
Noddy opened the shiny book. It had bright pictures and big letters, but something was very strange. The New Highway Code was all wrong! Instead of saying “Stop at the red light,” it said, “Go fast at the red light!” Instead of “Look both ways,” it said, “Close your eyes tight!”
“Oh dear,” said Noddy, scratching his wooden head. “This sounds silly, but the book must be right!” So, off he went, ready to be a proper driver.
At the first crossing, the light turned red. Noddy remembered the book and zoomed right through! “Wheee!” he shouted, but Mr. Plod the policeman blew his whistle.
“Noddy!” shouted Mr. Plod. “You must STOP at red lights! What are you doing?”
“It’s in the New Highway Code!” said Noddy, showing the book. Mr. Plod’s eyebrows shot up.
“That book’s all wrong!” he said. “Let’s try the next rule.”
Noddy read the next page: “Drive on the left? No, no! Drive on the RIGHT!” So, Noddy swerved to the right side of the road. BUMP! He crashed into Tessie Bear’s bicycle basket, and her apples flew everywhere!
“But the book says right!” said Noddy, confused.
Tessie Bear looked at the book and laughed. “This is a naughty book! It’s playing tricks on you!”
Noddy drove on, but the book kept being silly. It told him to honk his horn at quiet corners, so he parped loudly and woke up all of Mr. Wobbly Man’s wobbly babies. It told him to drive backward down hills, and he nearly rolled into Bumpy Dog’s picnic!
Finally, Noddy stopped his car outside Big-Ears’ house. “Big-Ears!” he cried. “This New Highway Code is all wrong! It’s making me a terrible driver!”
Big-Ears put on his glasses and read the book. “Oh, Noddy!” he chuckled. “This isn’t the Toyland Highway Code! It’s a joke book written by those naughty goblins! They love making trouble!” Noddy’s eyes went wide. “Goblins? Oh no! What do I do now?”
Big-Ears gave Noddy the real Highway Code, with proper rules like “Stop at red lights,” “Look both ways,” and “Drive carefully.” Noddy studied hard, and soon he was driving perfectly, waving to everyone as he went.
“Thank you, Big-Ears!” said Noddy. “Now I’m the best driver in Toyland!”
And as he parped his horn happily, the goblins peeked out from behind a tree, giggling at their silly trick. But Noddy didn’t mind—he was too busy driving safely and singing a jolly song!
The End
ScotPAG feels confident that our new, easy-to-follow guidance series
will be warmly welcomed by all regulatory bodies
Education Scotland, please look out for your special tale next week!
The most frightening thing is that the Care Inspectorate are the govt body with responsibility for overseeing services for children. And sadly our police force would no longer put Noddy right! They would be too busy investigating stickers and ribbons