The Professional Standards Board is an important group within COSRT’s structure. It helps develop, monitor and implement the different policies and practices that underpin our work to improve standards for practitioners and protect the public. The group has a demonstrable…
COSRT have recently responded to the government consultation on Sex and Relationship education. Thank you for everyone who helped with this, especially Sarah Calvert (UKCP, COSRT), who collated the response. Overall, COSRT feel the guidance is not adequate to meet…
On Wednesday the 4th of July Jo Coker, Julie Sale and I attended the parliamentary launch of the Memorandum of Understanding Against Conversion Therapy version 2, referred to as the MoU2, on behalf of COSRT. This event was hosted by…
Together with my COSRT colleague, Jo Coker, I was pleased to have been invited to attend a panel event on trans equality, held at the Speaker’s House in the Houses of Parliament on 15th May 2018. The event was jointly…
Since the publication of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), there have been many worrying and misleading media headlines, which seem to have been completely mis-interpreting or mis-representing what the MOU seeks to achieve. Indeed, there have been many sensationalist stories…
As the Memorandum of Understanding on conversion Therapy (MoU) launches in the UK, Kirstie McEwan COSRT Trustee, discusses and shares her thoughts on gender – what is it? Perhaps it is easier to say what gender is not – it…
