The safeguarding culture is both a valid enterprise and a suspect, questionable exception. In one respect, it matters that people are safe and safer because of review. In another, it’s a concern that it isn’t the same in public life.
The many groups that are self-organised and self-promoting have elements in them that cannot be. These are violent activists, propaganda actors, and rattle infiltrators.
They’ve attacked charities, schools, and political parties as just a few of the examples.
The point is not that we accuse the respected or the self-respecting particularly, but that claims are made evenly across society.
It’s not a fault of religion or the purpose of politics to bring out abuse, but it’s found in human activity and particular forms of deviant behaviour.
The activity of safeguarding is a general felt need for us all, and the rest of human life here needs to be left alone.