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Children’s commissioner says Welsh government not acting quickly enough on child safeguarding
CHILDREN’S Commissioner for Wales Rocio Cifuentes said today that the Welsh government was not acting quickly enough on safeguarding recommendations made after a paedophile head teacher was jailed. Ne
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Neil Foden was jailed for 17 years in 2024 after being found guilty of sexual abuse involving four girls over a four-year period.
A year after the review into the safeguarding issues raised by Foden’s offending it has been discovered that just three of the 13 recommendations had been completed.
Ms Cifuentes said: “I’m disappointed with the pace of progress on the whole safeguarding governance landscape.
“It’s a year from the publication of that review; it’s three years since Foden’s crimes first came to light and two years since he was sentenced.
“I think the issues we are dealing with are so significant that we have to inject a bit more urgency into actually moving to a place we can be assured children in schools are actually safer.”
The Welsh government said that it had not paused its work and it was making progress across the recommendations.
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