Dr Sardonicus really should stop reading newspapers it never cheers him up, or maybe just the cosy racist world of The Daily Mail? Or at this rate The People's Friend.
What has gone up Dr Sardonicus's capatious nostril this morning? It's the new government system for checking out that all people working with the vulnerable and children are nice.
This is inherently a good thing a quick check of the various government lists and you could weed out any one who had a conviction for abuse etc. But not enough some people might have slipped through the net. So now we have the concept of "soft data" got investigated? Some one made a possibly malicious complaint. And that's enough for you to be cast out of the work force, career over you were the weakest link. Oh and it takes upto 4 weeks, hurrah unpaid leave between jobs.
Unfortunately it would appear if as it is rumours CIA black site torture was inspired by Jack Bauer and 24. Our child protection system is inspired by Columbo.
Oh and parents? Teachers, carers, volunteers you're next. The cold eye of the state will fall upon you next, in this cheery world we're all probable abusers. God forbid anyone might suggest that better education and more trust could be the solution. How about being barred from your next school sports day because you played kiss chase age 10 or grandad banned for having bombed Bremen in WW2 (some of those victims must have been kids a form of child abuse).
The really joke is that this legislation was put in place after the Ian Huntley murders. It wouldn't have done anygood, maybe he wouldn't have got a job as a school caretaker. But he accessed those girls through his girlfriend. The abusers have long ago moved onto other hunting grounds (singles columns mainly aparently). All this legislation seems to do is feed an ongoing governmental obsession with us albeing guilty of something.
One wanders if some poor 12 year old gets charged with snogging another 12 year old? Will he fail his CRB and be banned from going anywhere near himself?
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