Leading the resistance to state stupidity
So another nursery worker, Paul Wilson, has been charged with abusing children in his care. This post is not about paedo-hysteria but on the way the CRB checks are largely giving a 'certificate' for those intent of abusing their charges a licence and people relying on this piece of paper than getting out and accepting responsibility for their offspring.
I will not on principle subject myself to a CRB check because the Criminal Records Bureau do not know me from Adam. Whereas quite a few local people do know my character personally for good or ill do, those asked for a reference as to my suitability have so far always said I was an OK sort of person.
This is of some regret as I would have been more than happy to have put my time in at any local youth group, to repay all those young adults thirty plus years ago that gave up their time in the Church Lads Brigade, organising camping trips,mountaineering expeditions, football matches, swimming galas that stopped me being a bored adolescent and giving something back.
The 'something must be done' mentality in relation to Paedo Scares, which I do not believe is any more prevalent than it was thirty, forty or sixty years ago, has got to the stage that the flower arrangers at Gloucester Cathedral have been told they must subject themselves to a CRB check,and they have refused. Blanket suspicion of the whole population of being suspect paedophiles until given a CRB certificate is suffocating children, corrupting normal interactions and relations between adults and children and denuding voluntary organisations of volunteers.
Much of this stems from the 'All Men Are Rapists' mindset of some 1970 feminists, who have now floated to the top in our modern society.
The only person who is responsible for your child is the parent. Not some bored bureaucrat issuing permissions without meeting or knowing the person. It is upto you if you are leaving your child with another adult is to meet the people concerned, talk to other parents etc etc. My parents did, because they were caring people and took responsibility for their offsping, not delegated it to the State.
Time to dump the CRB check, it is patently not working. As with most 'licences' issued by the State a waste of time created to create a spurious public confidence and and create public sector employment.
1 comments:
As a holder of a CRB check and having been dong youth work since just before they came about I can honestly say the impact has been overtly negative, but not as bad as for some churches I'm aware of who's access to manpower has been strangled by this.
The ongoing attempt to codify all human interaction is one of the greatest reasons for our "broken society" and sadly options like harsher punishment for abusive individuals and treatment for those who don't want to act on those urges are simply not considered, with the solution instead being licensing & criminalising normal people wanting to help whilst releasing many convicted sex offenders into the with little treatment or monitoring until something goes awry; horse, bolted.
Ditch it completely.
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