Mr_Grue wrote:Mandrake wrote:Best policy with kids is to make sure you're never in a situation of being the only adult in the room, there should always be at least two, one of each sex, and if you can get more adults there so much the better.
Under the current proposals that is apparently not enough. You now won't be able to visit a school and give a talk to a class without going through a CRB check, whether or not you're left alone with them. And unless I got the wrong end of the stick, you'll need a CRB check if you intend hosting a sleepover for your kids.
What angers me is this is based on the assumption that predatory paedophiles already have criminal records, that parent paedophiles will somehow be prevented from gaining access to children, and that this is the outcome of a knee-jerk reaction to the Soham murders, a case involving a school caretaker who, under the existing legislation, should have been checked, but wasn't.
This is a massive undertaking, a dreadful shift in the relationship between adults and children, based around something that is rare to begin with, and non-existent in most of the situations where a CRB check will soon be necessary. This will be about as useful at reducing paedophilia as insisting priests get CRB checks.
I agree!
Something comes to mind about horses and bolting stable doors.
