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I’ve given everything I possibly could to the cause. Risked it all and lost it all. I need you ALL to share and post everywhere and raise awareness of the @fa decision of a total football ban that is unprecedented even when child abuser officials are banned solely from children.
The conclusion that Dr Cartland represents a safeguarding risk to vulnerable adults and children is fundamentally misconceived.
The evidence relied upon does not establish a proper or rational connection between Dr Cartland’s conduct and any actual or prospective risk of harm to a child or vulnerable adult. In particular, his provision of letters supporting individuals who wished to exercise their right to refuse a COVID-19 vaccination cannot, without more, establish that he presents a safeguarding risk to children or vulnerable adults.
The purpose of those letters was to support individuals who had made their own decision concerning a medical intervention and wished to retain the ability to travel abroad, including to visit seriously ill or dying relatives. The underlying issue was patient autonomy, informed consent and the right of an individual to refuse medical treatment. Supporting an adult’s exercise of bodily autonomy is conceptually and factually very different from harming, exploiting, coercing or placing a child or vulnerable adult at risk.
The crucial question for a safeguarding assessment is therefore not whether the decision-maker agrees with Dr Cartland’s views concerning COVID-19 vaccination. It is whether there is credible evidence that his conduct demonstrates that he is likely to harm, or place at risk of harm, children or adults at risk in the context of football or other regulated activity.
No such evidential nexus has been identified. There is no suggestion that Dr Cartland harmed a child or vulnerable adult, attempted to do so, or that any child or vulnerable adult was the subject of the conduct relied up