As child educators and carers trip over their feet in their eagerness to help construct the foundations of a future scandal, my shining beacon of hope is the fall of Kids Company, in 2015, under the weight of massive financial mismanagement and allegations of sexual abuse.
The chief executive of Kids Company, Camila Batmanghelidjh, was a charismatic narcissist with a very high media profile. Concerns over her management of the charity had been in the wind a few years before, but the organisation seemed too big to fail.
The fact that Kids Company did enter into liquidation proves that there is a tipping point, although it takes action from outside the sector to set the wheels in motion. It also bears reminding that the fall of Kids Company was the result of a financial scandal. After accusations of sexual abuse, some of it involving minors, were levelled against Oxfam, the charity escaped with a couple of high level resignations and the reputed loss of £16million in funding, when certain individuals should have been starring at bared windows.
My fear is that Mermaids will undergo a similar restructuring, and possibly a rebranding, and we will be back here again a few years from now.
There is an inexhaustible supply of sadistic paedophiles lining up to work for this charity.