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Isn’t the Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) check just going through hoops?
The Vanessa George affair showed the major weakness of the CRB system ie that you’ll get an “all clear” if you haven’t been caught yet. However, the various schools are required to have the CRB check done on anyone who comes i...
Isn’t is it annoying the way thieves trash your place as well as stealing stuff?
Sadly, we’ve just heard the news that some ******** have broken into our house in France and trashed the place. What seems pretty much a cert is that the things that they took (seemingly less than a dozen things in total although we need to do ...
Are there any sensible lessons being learned following the Baby P fiasco?
So much went wrong in this particular case that it’s hard to know where to even start. The social services have an awful lot to answer for in this one. For a start, although they didn’t directly kill Peter clearly their inept actions cont...
In light of the Vanessa George affair, shouldn’t we just ban cameras from schools and make all photos of naked children illegal?
Sounds an easy solution to the pornography issue for sure although it obviously doesn’t solve the abuse angle in this case. However, there’s a problem with this approach. For one thing it’s a child safety measure yet many parents gi...
OK, so everyone’s disgusted, but what if Vanessa George is found not guilty because of that disgust?
The problem with really high profile cases such as Vanessa George’s seems likely to be is that the very high level of publically expressed opinions can mean that the court case can be thrown out. To avoid that what usually happens is that a rep...
When Vanessa George can get away with child pornography, what’s the point of the Criminal Records Bureau check?
When we got back from France it wasn’t long before James was set to go on a school outing and the school were asking for parents to volunteer to come along to help with looking after the children. So, we volunteered or rather we tried to becaus...
Just how free is freedom of expression?
Freedom of expression is one of those things that we kind of just assume we have in western societies but in reality there are generally limits to it. For example, the issue of Madeline McCann is freely spoken about in Portugal yet in the UK a range ...
Just who is “the media” these days? Legally it DOES include bloggers or at least those based in the UK
There’s been an ongoing debate for a number of years now as to whether or not bloggers are the same as journalists some of the time, all of the time, or never but thanks to moves from an unexpected quarter that debate is starting to become a mo...
