http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7474692.stm
what do you think?
are we protecting our children or going massivly over the top with it?
If you saw a child in town that looked lost, would you go and help them or leave it to someone else through fear of looking like an abducter?
Quote:
While in the past, adults would have helped children in distress or rebuked those misbehaving, there was now "a feeling that it is best not to become involved", it said.
Report author Prof Frank Furedi, of Kent University, said: "From Girl Guiders to football coaches, from Christmas-time Santas to parents helping out in schools, volunteers - once regarded as pillars of the community - have been transformed in the regulatory and public imagination into potential child abusers, barred from any contact with children until the database gives them the green light."
Instead of relying on Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks, adults should be allowed to use their "discretion and professional judgment" to decide who should work with children.
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personally i agree with crb checks, although it doesnt stop someone that hasnt yet commited and offence or hasnt been caught it does mean that someone who has will be kept out of a job with children
(although not someone that has abused their own children and had them removed from their care but not been charged with anything)
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