Supposing these allegations are true — which he denies — they are surely a matter for HR rather than safeguarding. If “abuse” is so widely defined as to define any exercise of power over the unwilling, it becomes quite meaningless. When everything is safeguarding, no one is safe. In both cases, the guilty and powerful got off, and the innocent and powerless were held up to public derision. All that is very different now, when those who have, in fact, been victims of abuse are rightly sheltered by anonymity.