Dr. Ross Canade, a psychologist who treated young patients at the controversial transgender clinic within the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, pleaded guilty in July to attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
Yet an investigation by The Daily Mail has found that Dr. Canade has not been suspended by the regulator which oversees his profession, meaning he is still free to practise.
The news prompted TalkTV presenter Renée Hoenderkamp to ask: “Are our children safe anywhere?”
Worked at the Tavistock clinic.
— Renée Hoenderkamp (@DrHoenderkamp) October 3, 2024
Guilty of grooming.
Judge allows him to walk free.
Governing body thus far allows him to continue working.
Are our children safe anywhere?https://t.co/M0pTD4ed9D
Dr. Canade was caught by so-called ‘paedophile hunters’ after meeting up with a youngster he believed to be a 15-year-old boy. The judge in his case told the psychologist that “you established he was inexperienced, and there was discussion of having sex in a local park. You agreed to meet with the intention of having sexual relations afterwards.”
Dr. Canade—whose LinkedIn profile describes him as a “highly specialist” psychologist at the NHS trust which is home to the now discredited Gender Identity Development Service transgender clinic—was ordered to complete 35 sessions of a sex offenders rehabilitation course and was dismissed by Tavistock.
He was, however, only handed a suspended sentence, meaning he will not be put behind bars.
Meanwhile, individuals who posted offensive comments online during the Southport riots have been handed lengthy prison sentences.
The Mail reports that anyone now wishing to hire Dr. Canade to treat vulnerable children “would find that, according to the website of the Health and Care Professions Council [HCPC], he remains registered to practice, without any conditions.” The paper adds that
it is the council’s job to keep the public safe from rogue psychologists.
An HCPC spokesman responded that “this has been forwarded to the relevant department for their attention.”