It is set to close after an independent review criticised its services. The result is a disturbing and gripping parable for our times. In 2016, James Bellringer, an eminent consultant urologist, visited the Tavistock child gender identity development service (GIDS) to issue a warning. Hopefully this time, unlike the previous times, the information will not just be swept under the carpet in the interests of kindness but will be acted on so the safety of very vulnerable children can be secured. Hannah Barnes Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistocks Gender Service for Children UCL Institute of Education, Thu - Hannah Barnes will introduce her highly acclaimed account of events at the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service for children.

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic at Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust in North London is the UK's only dedicated gender identity clinic for children and young people. Award-winning journalist Hannah Barnes has had unprecedented access to thousands of pages of documents, including internal emails and unpublished reports, and well over a hundred hours of personal testimony from GIDS clinicians, former service users and senior Tavistock figures. A must read and all kudos to Barnes and the team behind her for getting this out in the public conscience. Image: LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 29: A general view outside The Tavistock Centre on Jin London, England. She led its coverage of the care available to young people experiencing gender-related distress, which helped precipitate an extensive NHS review and unearthed evidence that was later used in several sets of legal proceedings. Tavistock trust whistleblower David Bell: ‘I believed I was doing the right thing’ Hannah Barnes is an award-winning journalist at the BBCs flagship current affairs programme Newsnight. BBC: Children's gender identity clinic concerns go back 15 years

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