Seriously, What the hells going on?

[Hugo-Johnson]

http://www.dailymail....O=1708&referrer=yahoo

[squarebear]

Welcome to Britain!

[Hugo-Johnson]

Are al parents now required to take a crb check to attend Sportsdays etc? Have any of you and experience with this happening?

[squarebear]

Sounds like it was some "jobsworth" at the school rather than any national policy.

It's true though that adult males like myself are made to feel guilty when watching children in occasions like this. When my wife takes our baby to the swimming pool and I watch from the side (I can't swim), I feel awful thinking that people will be imagining I am only there to look at children.

[samuelcat]

wow.what a crazy story.but how can he get a crb check.you cant apply yourself. and how many people have children at this school ? and they all work with children and have all been crb checked? the government is asking people what stupid laws they want changing,well this is one of them.

[Hugo-Johnson]

Sadly those dirty sick and twisted Peadophiles have made some things uncomfortable and difficult for some of us normal parents.

[squarebear]

Indeed.

[vulcan]

I recently arranged to meet a friend and because the traffic was lighter then expected, I arrived about Fifteen minutes early. Across the road was a group of young lads getting rugby tuition with a few parents watching. I started to watch but got such strange looks from the parents I went back and sat in the car. This country has become so sad.

[Hugo-Johnson]

Vulcan i believe that you can now get in trouble for taking a picture of your kids participating in sports etc...If there are other kids in the shot. So now we have to have whole photo albums with our kids alone looking like billy no mates and like they had a lonely childhood? Disgusting!

[Stephen_G]

I work in a sports shop and I'm more surprised that we haven't been subjected to these CRB checks. Maybe it's only a matter of time..... Thank God I have nothing to worry about.

Rather than helping kids with putting on of shoes/football boots and shinnys I hand them to the parents and let them sort the kids out. I read somewhere that you shouldn't approach a lost chid in a shopping centre, in case you're "Grooming" the child and I no longer do that around the shop. I go searching for the parents instead.

[jno]

this is all part of the anti-paedophile hysteria - for examples, you won't have to look very far down the News section. As long as people are content to be told by the tabloids that paedophiles are everywhere, and that they're worse than Harold Shipman and a tsunami combined, then schools will feel they have to ban parents from sport days.

Personally, I couldn't care less if a paedophile took photos of a sports day.

[sp1814]

Oh the irony...

The Daily Mail and the Express have for the past decade, been the papers leading the cry of "There are paedos everywhere...guard your kids...bring in Sarah's Law etc etc".

This is the result.

Every man in Britain now is 'a potential paedophile'.

Ya reap what ya sow.

[OrcadianOil]

Wonder if all the teachers have had CRB checks? And the dinnerladies? And the janitor? And the lunchtime supervisors? And the school lollipop wo/man? And all residents living within 200 yards of the school? And the coach drivers taking the kids to the local swimming baths once a week? And the swimming baths staff? And everyone allowed to be within a one mile radius of the baths at the relevant times? Ad nausem.......................................
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[redcrx]

Mr CRX and i went to watch our son at school sports day on Tuesday.
All parents and families were invited, no CRB checks required.
before taking any photos, Mr CRX asked the head, she said "well i shall be too busy to stop you if you do, and the children and all fully clothed"

we said we would stop if any parents complained, though we were only taking photos of races our son was in and of our youngest having fun.

Not one person said anything, we even offered to send the Head copies of what we took and she thanked us as the school hadnt had time to take many.

I think some people take it to an extreme. Plus, just because someone has a CRB check done doesnt necessarily mean they are safe around children, they may be a paedophil;e that hasnt been caught yet!

[jake-the-peg]

er Yes Orcadian

All those people coming into regular contact do have to have CRB checks

I have to have one to teach Karate to kids

You seem to be a bit out of touch if you think that after Soham a school Janitor wouldn't have to have a CRB check!

[Garmard]

Sometimes i open the paper and feel that i have stepped into an alternate dimension, what a load of rubbish. Sure Peadophiles are dotted about, but they have been for years and years and believe it or not it will never go away.
But what we are doing with all the paranoia is just driving them further underground, you can't treat everyone as a potential peadophile........Are we all losing the plot or is it the PC few?

[Mamyalynne]

Well I haven't changed the way I act (yes I know I'm female) I will strike uo conversations with children if they appear lost etc and have yet to be shot down in flames for it.

Last year at my Grandson's Nativity play, the Headmistress welcomed us and said 'At this point. I am supposed to say please do not take photos or video the performance, however if no one has any objection, I forgot to announce that!' There was a huge cheer and all the cameras came out of the handbags and pockets. What a sensible lady!

[jno]

love your avatar, Garmard, I'm just taking a copy of it for my own use.

[Garmard]

Go nuts jno.....thanx.

[jake-the-peg]

This is just a typical Daily Mail story where they pick out an extreme case and portray it as symptomatic of the entire country to satify the "PC gone mad" tendency that enjoy thinking that the country is orchestrating a conspiracy against them and "Common sense"

This is one school getting it wrong

I've two school age kids and no school has ever asked me to be CRB checked to visit a play or sportsday or anything like that

Have any of you ever been?

No?

[askyourgran]

I certainly hope Leicestershire County Council have a training session for schools such as this one who need to have things spelt out for them. It must be so embarrassing to be turned away from an event in front of your children/family. I hope they are made to pay for that, a public apology would suffice for insinuating such a thing.