UK paedophile-phobia continues

[mindstalk]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2194359/A-quarter-of-adults-to-face-%27anti-paedophile%27-tests.html

From next year the new Independent Safeguarding Authority will require any adult who come into contact with children or vulnerable adults either through their work or in voluntary groups to be vetted.

From the country where someone was beaten by a mob for being a pediatrician.

Also http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080624/tuk-bus-spotter-labelled-a-paedophile-45dbed5.html

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Around here it is mandatory to supply a recent police record (no more than one year old) in order to work with children or youths in some sort of professional manner, be that temp-teaching or whatever.

The same is probably going to happen for volunteer organizations, but most of them seems to be implementing it on their own.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

"Around here" doesn't tell us anything.

[pompe.livejournal.com]

Sorry, it was me. For some strange reason the computer had logged me out from LJ, I didn't realize it was anonymously posted. "Around here" means "Sweden".

The first thing I'm asked to show when I apply for work as a teacher is the police record. I think the rule started five eyars ago or so.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, mysterious log outs happen.

Checks for publicly employed teachers make some sense, but the article sounded like you can't organize a volunteer group, at least one serving the public, without checks. Or even have parent volunteers on a field trip. And beyond the checks themselves, there's the whole culture of fear. "There's a man and a little girl. Something's wrong."

[pompe.livejournal.com]

Parents are crazy. Well, rather, some parents are really crazy and many are quite normal.