This from a school newsletter…
“The children are always pleased when parents hear them sing at our assembly shows, so please come along if you can. Remember to bring your CRB checks with you”
That’s from Britain in 2010, not Germany in 1938. That is outright fascism. Please read the whole thing and get plum-dog fightin’ mean. “Papers, please!” to see your own kid singing… Actually it’s more something to make one deeply sad rather than angry.
Don’t read it if you suffer from some sort of heart condition though.
PS. Today is EU Safer Internet Day. All your firewalls are belong to us!
Ta for the link, Nick. I could do a blog on its own about the boy’s school. They banned trading cards in the playground today
Agreed Nick.
Not having school age childer any more I’m out of touch - can a school really do this to a parent of one of it’s pupils?
Even NuLieBore’s paranoid rules dont require a CRB check for a parent visiting their child’s school. It’s not frequent or even regular contact, it’s not actually working with the children. It sounds as if it could argued that going to a parents evening to discuss the child’s report would now require a CRB check.
Is this actually legal?
Sorry I let your six-year-old daughter drown in the canal, Mrs Smith, but unfortunately I’d left my CRB at home.
@ John RS
Of course it’s not legal, but they pretend it is so they get away with it.
Soon though it might be.
The current law states that parents are responsible for children’s education. Most fail in this by farming out the job to the state. Those who don’t may soon have that responsibility taken from them. There is a bill going through parliament to force parents wanting to home educate to apply for a licence from the Local Authority.
Next it’ll be a licence to feed our kids.
It doesn’t have to be legal or illegal. It is simply a climate of fear they seek to create. Standard totalitarianism. It becomes self-policing in the end.
Dick,
I was reading in The Sun (!) yesterday about a school that had banned Valentine’s Day. Yeah, but they are still legally obliged to teach “sex and relationship” education from age 5!
When walking the dog in the park yesterday, on the fence next to the ads for Pilites and yoga classes (yes it is that sort of neighbourhood) there was one offering babysitting services, by a brother and sister, aged 16 and 17.There was no mention of them being CRB checked.
Well best of luck to them. But I will be monitoring the local press to see if any prod nose bastard goes round and stops them.
Yeah, RAB. I’ll have to get the neighbour who cat-sits for us CRBed. You never know. Right I’m just off to craft a tin-foil titfer.
Yes best do that, just to be on the safe side Nick.
I hear Bestiality and Necrophillia are set to be the next big public panics to be foisted on us.
Not in Wales where I came from though. It is considered normal behaviour over there. Not enough Blodwyns to go round see.