Daily Mail - 04.03.2020

Daily Mail, Wednesday, March 4, 2020^ Page 29

Abbey: I work to

set good example

to my four kids

As a mother it can be diffi-

cult to juggle looking after

young children and having

a career.

But Abbey Clancy, 34, has

insisted it is important to

carry on working to set a

g o o d ex a m p l e t o h e r

four youngsters.

The model, who is married

to former England striker

Peter Crouch, said she is still

trying to ‘figure out’ the

with that mum guilt. But for

me, I feel like it’s important

to set a good example for

them. I want to work and still

be me while being the best

mum I can be.’

Miss Clancy, who has a

clothing line with Lipsy, said:

‘I don’t really feel too much

pressure from outsiders.

‘I maybe put pressure on

myself sometimes or feel

guilty about going to work,

or sometimes when you’re

tired your confidence might

be a bit low, but I haven’t

really suffered too much

negativity from others.’

she added: ‘I have been

quite lucky in that sense. I

feel like I’m in a privileged

position where I can do the

jobs that I love and then come

home and be a mum and have

my four kids around me.’

By Eleanor Sharples

TV and Radio Reporter

Family time: The couple with three of their children

‘Stuck with

that guilt’

syth and Mr Cox’s behaviour

and its attempt to sweep it all

under the carpet.

It adds that the inquiry has

‘taken longer than expected -

but this shouldn’t be taken as

an indication of what the

Commission is finding out. It

has publicly stated that it is

struggling with a series of big

investigations at the same

time as it has faced major

budget cuts’.

The memo bans SCUK staff

from talking to the media and

reveals new security checks

have been ordered to stop

journalists gaining access to

its London HQ tomorrow.

One source said: ‘It is outra-

geous to point the finger of

blame at the Charity Commis-

sion and demean the inquiry

when SCUK only has itself to

blame. Instead, they use heavy

handed measures and spin to

carry on covering things up.

When will they learn?’

Despite downplaying the

inquiry, the memo admits it

failed to deal properly with Mr

Forsyth and Mr Cox.

And it also reveals that,

despite improvements, many

staff are still unhappy with the

way they are treated, particu-

larly those from minorities.

SCUK last night said the

charity had co-operated fully

with the probe. A spokesman

added comments in the memo

about the Commission were

‘already in the public domain’.

dog that investigated

its failure to protect

female staff.

A l e a k e d m e m o f r o m

Kevin Watkins, chief execu-

tive of Save The Children

UK, puts the blame for it

losing £16million of taxpay-

ers’ money on the Charity

Commission for investigat-

ing the charity’s cover-up

of sexual harassment and

bullying of female staff by

two former bosses.

The memo plays down the

seriousness of the two-year

inquiry, saying it is ‘no indi-

c a t i o n’ o f t h e e x t e n t o f

wrongdoing. And it claims

the Commission is struggling

to cope with a series of big

investigations because of a

cash shortage.

It goes on to admit that

despite promising to root out

m i s t r e a t m e n t o f s t a f f a t

SCUK, 28 per cent said they

‘ h a d e x p e r i e n c e d s o m e

w a s a c c u s e d o f s e x u a l l y

assaulting a government offi-

cial in the United States.

The Commission will accuse

SCUK of ‘comprehensive fail-

ures’ by letting Mr Forsyth and

Mr Cox resign quietly in 2015

despite their misconduct.

It says the charity let down

women employees badly.

It is expected to lead to calls

for Mr Watkins, a SCUK trus-

tee when the scandal was cov-

ered up, to resign. He has

always denied any wrongdo-

ing and says major changes

have been introduced to safe-

guard female staff.

The leaked memo, sent yes-

terday, tells SCUK staff ‘how to

talk about the report’ to mini-

mise its impact and win back

the £16million annual grant

withdrawn by the Department

for International Development

because of the scandal.

It appears to blame the

Commission for losing it the

money – rather than Mr For-

form of workplace incivility’,

with those from minorities

worst affected.

The memo by Mr Watkins

was disclosed on the eve of

tomorrow’s publication of a

damning report into SCUK by

the Charity Commission.

The inquiry was ordered

after former chief executive

Justin Forsyth and his deputy

Brendan Cox, the widower of

Model

mother:

Abbey

Clancy

By Simon

Walters

Save the Children

‘failed female staff’

FOURTH boss could face calls to quit

over charity’s sex harassment scandal

From yesterday’s Mail

THE embattled boss of a

charity hit by sex pest claims

was last night accused of

m a k i n g a n ‘ o u t r a g e o u s ’

attack on the official watch-

Now boss of Save The

Children blames sex

probe for lost £16m

‘Disruption

and risks’

murdered Labour MP Jo Cox,

were exposed as sex pests.

Mr Forsyth, 54, who worked

for Tony Blair and Gordon

Brown in Downing Street, quit

a senior Unicef post in 2018

after he was accused of send-

ing ‘unsuitable’ text messages

to female SCUK employees.

Mr Cox, 44, who also advised

Mr Brown, faced similar claims

about his time at SCUK and

‘dynamic’ between her work

and being a mother of four.

The couple are parents to

sophia, eight, Liberty, four,

Johnny, two, and nine-

month-old Jack.

Miss Clancy told OK! Maga-

zine: ‘I think for any mum

who has to or chooses to go

to work, you still get stuck

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