Parenting news: archive
Alison Shepherd: Children need love and trust – not another quango
Independent, 13 September 2009
Message board: Suspect parents
The Sunday Times, 13 September 2009
Is the government right to vet those who ferry children to clubs and other organised activities?
NSPCC criticises volunteer checks
BBC News Online, 13 September 2009
Plans to vet parents who take part in activities involving regular contact with children have been criticised by children's charity, the NSPCC.
Vetting and Barring Scheme: Timeline of the creation of the ISA
Daily Telegraph, 12 September 2009
The Independent Safeguarding Authority will now vet everyone who has to work with children or vulnerable adults. Here is a timeline of how the new guidelines have evolved.
Stupid law will turn us into outlaws
The Times (London), 12 September 2009
The new quango teaches us that the more the State bosses us around, the less we abide by its rules. By Matthew Parris.
‘Children are the lifeblood of Blue Peter’
The Times (London), 12 September 2009
Former editor of the children’s show, Biddy Baxter, hopes common sense will prevail in rules on the appearance of minors.
Parents tag along with gap-year adventurers
The Times (London), 12 September 2009
More young people are failing to find freedom on gap years as 'helicopter parents' follow them to warmer climes.
Letters: The new vetting database
Independent, 12 September 2009
Now we must prove that we are not paedophiles.
Anthony Seldon: We need trust, not more surveillance
Independent, 12 September 2009
Children must be protected but it’s a question of balance, and we’re losing it.
Child protection scheme ‘draconian’
Independent, 12 September 2009
Tories promise to rein in 'nonsensical' plan for checking of parents.
Vetting volunteers to protect children: a charter for more mutual suspicion
Guardian, 11 September 2009
The ideas underpinning the new Independent Safeguarding Authority will force 11.3 million of the population to pay a dangerously high price. By Michael White.
Why should we pay to prove we’re not child abusers?
Daily Mail, 11 September 2009
By Richard O'Hagan.
Will the world’s biggest vetting system make us feel safer?
Daily Mail, 11 September 2009
Or just more watched? By James Slack.
Vetting database will cost NHS and public bodies £170m
Independent, 11 September 2009
New checks unveiled for children’s club drivers
Independent, 11 September 2009
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