The Anonymous Widower

The CRB/ISA Farce

It’s not often that those two newspapers at the opposite end of the political spectrum; the Guardian and the Daily Mail, agree on anything.  And Esther Ranzten is in the same camp too.

We need to have checks on those that work with children, but are we looking in the wrong place and the wrong way for a start?  I don’t have the figures, but aren’t don’t a lot of serious cases involving child abuse and even murder down to the parents or those that live with one of the parents?

So perhaps we should do checks on all parents.  And while we’re at it, lets check grandparents, like me!  And au-pairs too!

Everybody too, was getting under the collar about this on Nicky Campbell’s phone-in this morning.  And probably rightly so, as estimates say that over eleven million of us, will have to be checked.

No-one seems to have done any risk analysis on this.  Does anybody look at the statistics of harm that comes to children?

Lets take fire for a start.  This bland set of statistics gives the number of fire deaths in 2005.  It shows that 200 or so died in domestic fires, of whom a proportion were children.  Do we insist on smoke alarms working?  No!  A fire officer once told me that kids remove the PP9 batteries from them for their toys and game machines.

And then road accidents!

We need a proper holistic strategy that gives maximum protection to everybody and not just children.  And it needs to be done through education, training and watchfulness from everybody.

Not by the heavy hand of bureaucracy! 

One caller on Nicky Campbell’s show suggested that it was a government money-raising exercise.  I couldn’t possibly comment, but eleven millions at upwards of fifty pounds a time is a lot of revenue for Prudence and his cronies.

But perhaps the most chilling example of how this will all fail concerns the case today of Russell Carter.  He had been convicted of armed robbery in the US, but this was unknown in the UK and he was able to get jobs that put people in danger.  In the end he murdered his boss.

September 11, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | News | Crime, Gordon Brown, NuLabor, Politics