At a NAPAC training day for staff and volunteers some people said they thought it was ok to hit children. Peter Saunders, founder and president of NAPAC who was present said:-

A) Hitting children is physical abuse and NAPAC is campaigning for it to be outlawed in all circumstances.

B) I agree with the survivor of physical and sexually abuse who said that hitting children is physical abuse.

C) I apologise to the survivor who was intimidated when he challenged the statements that it was ok to hit children.

D) NOTHING.
The answer is D.

How can Peter Sunders be trusted to challenge abuse in the Catholic Church or on the Goddard enquiry when he doesn't challenge it in his own organisation.

NAPAC is in crisis ! Most of the staff have left or been sacked, many volunteers have left or been kicked out. There has been harassment, bullying, homophobic abuse and dictatorial attitudes and behaviour. NAPAC is its volunteers ! Ask questions about what is going on, (although try to get confirmation of the answers they give as some volunteers have been lied to) and if you don't get satisfactory answers stop facilitating these people.

When Jon Bird operations manager at Napac said

“I am sorry if I upset you and thank you for letting me know about this trigger.”

Was it because:-

 A) He had spoken to a survivor with CPTSD in an aggressive and hostile way.

 B) He made a sexually suggestive remark to a gay survivor.

 C) He said that “Gaydar” is offensive.

 D) He took no action regarding volunteers who said they thought it was ok to physically abuse children.

The Answer is A but it should have been all of the above.