Ken Frost, at Nanny Knows Best, reflects on the imposition of CRB checks.
One hesitates, one really does, to correct anyone with so many letters after their name but I have to say that I don’t believe this is anything to do with protecting anybody against anything.
It’s just another tax. Pay us £70 per annum (the last figure I saw reported) for every job, voluntary activity or leisure pursuit that you do, otherwise, without a ‘CRB check’, you won’t be allowed to do it. Checks are not transferable between purposes; each must be paid for separately.
Among the things that this will achieve is the extermination of real (as opposed to quangocratic) charities, like the one I work for. We cannot afford £1400 to have all twenty volunteers checked every year. Nor could most small businesses. The funny thing is that any organisation with more than 1000 staff will have the cost of these checks paid by the state.
Coincidence?
Hardly.
