A quarter of all adults will face an “anti-paedophile” test next year in a dramatic escalation of child protection policies which, says a new report, are poisoning relationships between children and adult.

 

Criminal Records Bureau checks of this type were introduced to offer children better protection after the murder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells by Ian Huntley in 2002.

 

But Professor Frank Furedi, the new report’s author, points out that CRB checks do not guarantee that children will be safe with a particular adult. He also argues that parenthood is increasingly being treated as “a professional endeavour that demanded increasing regulation and monitoring” and that most adults now think twice before helping children in distress.

 

Figures show that fewer people are volunteering to work with children with 13 per cent of men saying they would not do so for fear that people will think they are child abusers.

 

Are CRB checks destroying the natural balance of trust between children and adults?

Should we rely on tests like these to protect our children or would vigilance – on the part of individuals and communities – be a better way of keeping them safe?

 

Would you resent being subjected to these tests or do you feel that no price is too high to guarantee the safety of children?

 

Does authority in this area need to be more evenly distributed between government agencies, parents and those who work directly with children?

 

Source: Sunday Telegraph

 

fcukkin 'paedogedden' innit... its becoming barmy.

Something like 95% of all abuse occurs via a relative or close family friend of the child, the stereotype of a guy in a mac jumping out of a bush is a very rare concept there is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more danger from within a childs own family and family circle than there is from strangers, of course there are cases involving strangers but the number of children attacked or abused or murdered by strangers I would guess is lower than the number of adults or pensioners or whatever who are attacked or murdered

 

 

Round the clock media scaremongering combined with poor education's to blame.

 

Won't belong before kids are living life in a 'paedophile-proof bubble'

The facts are that Ian Huntley could have been stopped had the POLICE not fukked-up at their end, or if they'd taken the girls he had assaulted BEFORE killing Holly and Jessica more seriously instead of dismissing their claims, if the bloke had been on a Sex Offender's register, he'd've never got the job at the school in the first place... Huntley was and escalating offender, he had been charged with sex assaults before, but charges were dropped...

 

And I totally agree with Craig, the vast majority of child abuse happens in the home....

 

I dont think that CRB checks would actually help tackle the vast majority of child abuse cases...

The facts are that Ian Huntley could have been stopped had the POLICE not fukked-up at their end, or if they'd taken the girls he had assaulted BEFORE killing Holly and Jessica more seriously instead of dismissing their claims, if the bloke had been on a Sex Offender's register, he'd've never got the job at the school in the first place... Huntley was and escalating offender, he had been charged with sex assaults before, but charges were dropped...

 

And I totally agree with Craig, the vast majority of child abuse happens in the home....

 

I dont think that CRB checks would actually help tackle the vast majority of child abuse cases...

 

.... ian chalis from derby was a 'non offender' so police checks failed to detect him as a danger prior to him having a three year reign of terror rapeing a girl of 5. the only way to prevent this type of crime is to educate kiddys to talk. dreconian measures can be easily got around by the devious p****.

 

btw he was a family friend of the victim.

the only way to prevent this type of crime is to educate kiddys to talk.

 

I agree with that broadly speaking... Trouble is though, kids can make stuff up sometimes... I mean we've all told stories to each other as kids, older kids coming along with the "dont go into the old house or the bogey man/old witch will get you and kill you...." stuff. When in reality the "bogey man" is really just some sad old geezer who lives on his own and the "old witch" is just some old lady who talks to her cats. We have to be very careful of this sort of thing, education is the key here, as always.....

 

It's such a media thing. It wouldn't surprise me if left than 0.0000001% of British people where paedophiles.

It's such a media thing. It wouldn't surprise me if left than 0.0000001% of British people where paedophiles.

 

the figure is much higher... dunno what, but thousands were caught in 'operation ore', and dont forget, you cant include big sections of the population in that figure... its mostly adult males, so the true figure would be 'what % of adult males are paedos', plus youd have to determine exactly what constitutes a 'p****'. is an 18 year old male having sex with a 14 year old girl a p****?... literally he is!

 

 

is an 18 year old male having sex with a 14 year old girl a p****?... literally he is!

 

Or indeed a 16-year old male having sex with 14 year old....

 

The answer is very obviously NO, at most it's "statutory rape", and where there is consent being given I dont even think there should be any prison time in such circumstances..... A two or four year age gap is hardly the same thing as a fully-grown adult male in their 20s or 30s having sex with an 8 or 10 year old...

 

There was a case once of a 14 year old lad having consenting sex with a 12 year old girl, the boy got charged, the girl didn't... Ludicrous, neither of them were at the age of consent, so where the hell is the "statutory rape", BOTH parties consented, does this mean that 18 year old girls who have sex with 14/15 year old boys aren't guilty of "statutory rape"....? Society just wanted someone to "blame" because it made all the papers..... But no blame should really be apportioned where both parties aren't even 16... Well, perhaps questions should've been asked of the parents.....

 

There does seem to be a system of legal double standards on this issue....