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Senator Syvret has named the very senior civil servant in the education department who is under investigation for child abuse, but not suspended. In an old but extremely valuable feature of many english speaking parliaments around the world, senator Syvret used his parliamentary privilege to reveal the name.  As an elected member speaking in the chamber he is immune from slander or other civil (but technically as I understand it not criminal) charges.  You can read more at around item 175 of the comments here https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7124117913567332282&postID=5183127454892778480
As a result of the naming in the States, the press are now at liberty to report the facts of this naming.   Had I been in the chamber to record the actual exchange I would do so myself. 

However to my mind the really breathtakingly outrageous part of all this is the statement that revealed the mindset of the Ministers involved. I have it from more than one source the Education Minister (soon to be just mister) Vibert said they have a duty of care to employees.  That's true, but they also have a duty of care to children, especially the 1/3 corporate parent, in charge of schools, Education Minister Vibert.   No word of that.  The truth of it from his own mouth by implication is that senior civil servants are more in need of exercising of his duty of care than children in the schools run by his department.  This is the endemic, imbecilic, and downright wrong headed attitude that got us into this child abuse mess in the first place. He and the other howling monkeys who joined in shouting down senator Syvret have obviously learned nothing from the past year.  These are same people who complained about a bit of public heckling at a hustings! They are stuck in their Victorian attitudes - put the troublesome ones away, out of sight out of mind, and keep up appearances at the gentlemens club.  He's a jolly good fellow, one of us you know, his father was my uncle's fag at St Duffers.

Anywhere else I can think of such an appalling failure to put the interests of children over well paid civil servants  would have resulted in union action by teachers, and parents organising a mass withdrawal of children from schools until action was taken to protect the children. But this is Jersey, and as they say in journalism, if you want to get to the bottom of a story follow the money.....