How the TRJ Case Shaped The Reasonable Adjustment and Ki-Ki

The Recruitment Junction case wasn’t just an isolated dispute. It became the ignition point for a full-scale transparency ecosystem — The Reasonable Adjustment, Ki-Ki, the evidence archive, and the criminal justice due-diligence work that followed.

This page explains the butterfly effect that began with a single blocked email and evolved into one of the most comprehensive public-interest records of a small UK charity.

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The timeline: How a small dispute became a public-interest case

1. The initial referral

The Recruitment Junction (TRJ), a small North East charity, was introduced as an employment support option via the Probation Service. The expectation was simple: basic support, reasonable adjustments, and a neutral, professional process.

2. The catalyst – a push for a “standardised CV”

TRJ insisted on using their own simplified CV template, ignoring disability-related adjustments, professional accomplishments and user autonomy. The request to keep the original CV — entirely lawful — resulted in support being withdrawn within minutes.

3. Abrupt withdrawal and blocked communication

Emails were blocked while a disabled service user was in the middle of:

a live Subject Access Request under the Data Protection Act
a live Right to Erasure (for limited data)
active Equality Act adjustments requests

This was the moment the case escalated from “mildly frustrating” to a full safeguarding concern.

4. Public funding contradictions (£134,000 proven on record)

TRJ publicly claimed “no public funding”. The paper trail — including Newcastle City Council’s GrantFinder system — proved this was false. More than £134,000 was verifiably awarded.

To put it politely: that raised eyebrows.

5. The Reasonable Adjustment is born

With formal governance routes either failing or refusing to act, a public-interest platform was launched: The Reasonable Adjustment.

It grew rapidly, documenting:

public funding evidence
safeguarding failures
Equality Act issues
blocked-email proof
FOI and grantmaker contradictions

6. Ki-Ki emerges from the ashes

Once the evidence started building, a pattern was obvious — broken digital governance everywhere:

charities with no CDN or security layer
no DMARC/SPF/DKIM
poor data handling
slow, bloated sites
no evidence-grade logging

Ki-Ki was born as a direct answer: fast, static sites, Cloudflare-hardened infrastructure, and passive fingerprint intelligence for SMEs, charities and support organisations.

7. The CJA Awards happen

The Criminal Justice Alliance awarded TRJ “Outstanding Small Organisation 2025”. This raised a legitimate question: Did the panel review the existing evidence?

This CJA Awards hub exists to ensure the public can check the missing context for themselves.

8. The butterfly effect completes the loop

Without the TRJ case:

there would be no Reasonable Adjustment
no Ki-Ki
no evidence archive
no public funding breakdowns
no digital due-diligence tooling

It is the clearest possible example of how one small injustice can create an entire accountability ecosystem.

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