Mr. David Courell:

It would be if someone came to me today and said, "I think something is happening and it is not happening to me". I would want to afford them the safe space. I think I am an open individual who people would come to have that conversation with. The next step would be to encourage them to engage with the processes we have in place to formalise it. It also, however, depends on whether it is a child or adult that has been subjected to the inappropriate behaviour. As Ms Pakes referenced earlier, a key tenet of safeguarding legislation is that the autonomy of an adult needs to be respected and it is therefore their choice if they want to report their experiences. We are only able to take action with a report, otherwise we would be at risk of defamation or a range of different topics. I thank Dr. May for acknowledging the difficulty that any NGB would face in dealing with this generic situation.