Save the Children Fund

The courage of difficult women

What happened at Save the Children is a symptom of a wider problem in our society which urgently needs to be addressed. The women who have spoken up are the real heroes, not the men who have had the ‘courage’ to admit their mistakes.

By Leslie Francis

Published: February 21, 2018, 5:02 pm

_{Justin Forsyth, ex-CEO of Save the Children UK. Credit: By DFID - UK Department for International Development,}_{CC BY-SA 2.0}_via_{Wikimedia Commons}_.

It is now acknowledged that in relation to allegations of sexual harassment involving staff at Save the Children-UK’s Headquarters in London, the agency’s own “Human Resource processes had not been followed in every aspect” at the time the complaints were made. Justin Forsyth, the former CEO, and Brendan Cox, his former number two, have both admitted that they made mistakes. But this stems from a crisis that culminated in 2015. Why is it only being acknowledged now? Why didn’t anyone speak up?

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