news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8153251.stm


From the BBC News website.

" .. parents would not want adults working regularly with young children, even on a voluntary basis, without any sort of background check at all."

As a parent I am insulted that the government use us to hide behind when making bad policy. Most parents have not asked for any such thing. We have been told that this is what we want, which for many of us it isn't. Background checks do not tell us about someone's personality, they merely tell us if they have been caught or accused. We are constantly told by this same government that most paedophiles have not been detected yet, which suggests that background checks would not detect them. We also know that decent people who have been wrongly accused will be blocked from doing what they are good at because of strict background checks.

It's incredible that the government cannot see the damage they are doing, and that they continue to be so contradictory. Are they really so stupid?

As has already been pointed out by another poster, the government are using this totally invented fear for children's safety as an excuse to put everyone in the country on a database. The next thing, no doubt, will be for parents to have to have a CRB or other background check before they're allowed to have children. Perhaps this will be the beginning of a backlash by the general public against forcing them onto a national criminal database.