[Ber999T]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Yes, it's this good Samaritan thing I am referring too after what other people posted on a previous thread. My natural instinct would be to help but it seems that people are put off these days because they get into trouble for helping.

Willow that is fine and the above quote is a great way of saying how to determine YOUR (as in anybody's) limit of treatment.


If I see a child crying in the school playground when I am there in my official capacity my instinct is to put my arm round him or her and comfort them but guess what - this is no longer allowed. I find this incredibly sad.

I used to teach a nursery class and it use to be normal procedure for one teacher to take a child to the toilet when the child needed to go, but guess what, that is no longer allowed either. Now if there are not 2 people available to take the child then the whole class has to be trouped along and the child has to go to the toilet WITH THE DOOR OPEN, so that an adult and child are not alone together in the toilet. Again I find this very sad.

This bit is not about the "GSA" but Child Protection (but I call it Adult Protection in that if you follow the guidelines you can't go wrong) and is completey (sp) different, but I do agree it is totaly over the top

A child fell off his bike outside our house. He was crying. His knee was bleeding. I bathed it, dabbed on some antiseptic and put a plaster on it. I suppose he could be allergic to the plaster and I could be sued by the parents. I suppose I could have been accused of assault for putting antiseptic on, after all teachers are no longer allowed to do things like that. I didn't invite the child into the house but did all this on the garden wall because I have had it drummed into me about not being alone with a child I am not related to. I took the chance of caring for the boy's knee because I cared more about that than about the risk of being sued.

This sounds like you used Basic First Aid and well done however did the parents not know what had happened and did they thank you?

My point is though that whatever you do these days you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. Life used to be a darned site simpler when people just used common sense but it all stems from this money grabbing society we live in coupled with a morbid fear of paedophiles. I'm sure the latter manage to entice children into their clutches regardless of all these rules and regulations.

Yes Willow it does seem like your dammed if you do and dammed if you don't and guess the PCSO that were at the pond would have liked to have been able to make that choice but couldn't. As to the saddos that prey on kids well can't say on a family friendy forum so will leave that to your thoughts.........................