I hold my hands up that public silence was not the right move. I hope I have conveyed why we took that stance and, more importantly, what we are doing as an organisation to create the deep change needed inside Platfform, the sectors we work in and wherever we can create change for the better with communities.

Kindness on its own doesn’t quite cut it for me. It glosses over the really tough stuff. The pain, the poverty, the generational unemployment, abuse, violence and structural inequality that many people face every day.

We don’t need policy tweaks or shifts. We need large scale transformation of mind-set and system.

I’m pointing out an uncomfortable truth.  A truth that I believe stands in the way of true transformational system change.