Parenting news: archive
Vetting and barring: This culture of suspicion needs to change
Daily Telegraph, 14 December 2009
Changes in vetting legislation still have great potential to ensnare and inconvenience millions of people whose contact with children and vulnerable adults is purely voluntary.
Do we need a complete re-think of all anti-paedophile vetting procedures?
Daily Telegraph, 14 December 2009
Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, appears to think he has seen off public opposition to the creation of the world's biggest anti-paedophile database.
Vetting shambles: Ed Balls’ U-turn exempts 2m adults from criminal checks…
Daily Mail, 14 December 2009
but 9m parent helpers will still fall into the net
CRB checks routinely carried out on 13 and 14-year-olds
Daily Telegraph, 14 December 2009
Criminal record checks are routinely being carried out on 13 and 14-year-old children, figures revealed today.
Nine million face paedophile checks despite Ed Balls U-turn
Daily Telegraph, 14 December 2009
Nine million people who have regular contact with children will still face anti-paedophile checks despite a u-turn by Ed Balls.
Simon Carr: Put carers in high-visibility jackets
Independent, 14 December 2009
Comfortably off, middle-class intellectuals have a charter to abuse.
Still absurd, insulting and authoritarian
spiked, 14 December 2009
Two key campaigners against Britain’s vetting database argue that Ed Balls’ ‘u-turn’ isn’t nearly enough: the vetting regime must be dismantled. By Josie Appleton and James Panton.
Government U-turn over parental vetting plans
Sunday Times, 13 December 2009
Parents who are hosts to children on foreign exchange visits will not have to be screened for paedophile tendencies.
Harman backs down on equal pay rules
Sunday Times, 13 December 2009
More than 97% of firms are now likely to be exempt from rules in the Equality Bill requiring equal pay for men and women.
King’s College school gets chorus of criticism
The Sunday Times , 13 December 2009
The school in Cambridge that educates choristers in the world-famous King’s College choir has been ordered by the government to introduce urgent reforms after allowing a teacher into the classroom without an up-to-date Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.
Groups hail vetting rules changes
BBC , 13 December 2009
A review by the Independent Safeguarding Authority was ordered after there was an outcry that volunteers were being deterred from working with children because of the VBS requirements.
Vetting rules climbdown after public backlash
Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2009
The Government scheme to vet up to 11 million adults who work with children or vulnerable people is to be watered down following a public outcry.
School leaders criticise new vetting and barring system
BBC, 11 December 2009
New rules on who can work with children are too bureaucratic and will not guarantee safety, say head teachers.
Paedophile checks ‘ruining pupils’ education’
Daily Telegraph, 11 December 2009
Head teachers have launched a furious attack on Labour’s anti-paedophile database amid claims it is wrecking children's foreign exchange trips and work experience placements.
This is Brittle Britain, anxious and stressed
The Times (London), 8 December 2009
Poverty today is no longer about material needs. Loneliness and lack of support have become much more important. By Geoff Mulgan.
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