A BIT ABOUT US

Meet some of EBSWA’s members

EBSWA was set up in 2019 to provide a stronger voice for social workers critical of policies and practice which replace the fact of sex and sexuality with a belief in “gender identity”.

We have members in England and Wales and Scotland. We are all real, with real concerns about the way that gender identity has captured social work without discussion.

We work to give that concern a voice and to ensure that the voice is heard.

Team Members

Maggie S

Maggie retired in 2023 after 36 years working in Children’s safeguarding in both statutory and voluntary sectors. Whilst she would be considered as gender critical now, Maggie sees herself as having held the same professional view about how children and young people safely develop their sense of identity, with minimal interference

Maggie Mellon

A founding member of EBSWA, Maggie qualified in social work in 1977, and has worked in Scotland and in England. Semi-retired, she works as an independent social worker in Scotland

Gareth

Gareth is a registered social worker with 18 years' post-qualification experience in statutory mental health services and adult social services.

Kay Beaumont

Kay Beaumont is a retired social worker having worked for more than 40 years in many settings including adoption, mental health, learning disabilities, as a guardian ad litem and as a probation officer.

Stephen Madill

Stephen Madill qualified as a criminal justice social worker in 1990. He has worked in domestic abuse intervention projects for over twenty-five years and has managed behaviour change programmes and associated partner support services in both the voluntary and statutory sectors.

Rachel Meade

Rachel Meade had no option for anonymity having been investigated and sanctioned by Social Work England and then suspended and investigated by her employer for merely expressing concern about the impact of gender identity ideology,

Sharon

Sharon has worked in frontline social work for 15 years, becoming a qualified Children and Families Social Worker in 2013 after completing a Masters degree.

Charles Plummer

Charles is a strong advocate for evidence-based practice in child safeguarding and family court social work, and is concerned about the harm caused to children and young people by the encroachment of gender ideology within social work practice, academia, and social work regulators.

Sarah Philimore

Sarah has extensive experience in public law proceedings and EBSWA has benefited greatly from her knowledge of the law and her championing of the rights and interests of women and children

Miriam

Miriam is an early career social worker in children's safeguarding. She is worried about the lack of evidence informed guidance regarding gender identity in children.