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The CRB check is a poison in our society

The picture to the right of this text comes to me courtesy of the Freedom in Education blog. Each of those blue pins represents a case of someone with a completely clean CRB check committing child abuse.

CRB Map Please do click this link to take you to the actual version of the map and links to the original news stories. It is an astonishing, albeit very sad, piece of data-collection.

While you consider the map and the horrifying number of those pins, I bring you the following story from the Nursing Times:

Children have missed out on surgery because of “chaotic” Government regulations, medical professionals say.

The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) warned their members could not cover absences or work at different hospitals due to Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check restrictions.

Young patients either had to wait or travel long distances to see a surgeon at a different hospital, due to “overzealous” interpretations of the rules by NHS trusts and long delays in returning results, it said.

The RCS said medical staff with an enhanced CRB check should be allowed to work in any hospital, and pointed out the restrictions prevented trainee paediatricians from gaining experience in different areas.

Some trainee surgeons went through more than 10 separate checks in two years, according to the college president John Black.

How can this make sense? If the CRB check is supposed to protect children (and, as the map shows, it does a bloody awful job of it) why is it preventing them from being treated for illness and injury in the NHS?

On top of stopping authors reading to children and the slow destruction in after-school clubs and youth groups – because non-CRB checked parents can no longer volunteer their time – the CRB is now hurting young people in a far more direct way.

The CRB check is a nasty poison and it needs to be replaced urgently.

By Dylan Sharpe

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Big Brother Watch Posted in Home
  • Mishmash

    Well, I suppose that’s one way of rationing NHS care.

  • Michael

    Not just rationing, I have 9 CRB checks completed in the last year alone! As a means of protecting children it is on a level with throwing virgins down a well. On the other hand it is a “nice little earner” for Crapita.

  • A. J. Burnet

    Perhaps there is some light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, i.e. the more incompetence, stupidity, and downright obstruction by over-zealous halfwits is exposed, the more likely it is that eventually enough people will wake up to the damage that idiotic legislation such as that which gave birth to the CRB empire is wreaking.

  • http://thejusticeofthepeace.blog.co.uk The Justice of the Peace

    If the country were flush with cash there`s a certain argument that could be put outwith libertarian concerns. With our being on our financial knees owing to thirteen years of incompetent government further spending on this distraction is a disgrace.

  • Kay

    This measures was never intended to protect children: it was intended to give the appearance of doing so to make a politician look good.
    It does not matter how poorly it works or what damage it does. Failures will become an excuse to further expand and elaborate it. The only thing that will shift this odious system is a financial crash sufficiently severe as to overcome the voting power of benefit-dependent and non-job holding Labour voters.

  • sharron

    More so, it doesn’t protect vulnerable adults in a community group where other ‘clients’are dangerously giving out ill informed free medical advice. Too many loopholes the legal system is strangling in it’s own bureaucracy. Can anyone remind me, this is still a free country… right?!

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  • Jeremy Farshore

    Follow the links and look at the articles. The claim of this piece is that each of these symbols represent someone with “a clean CRB check” who comitted an offense. There is no evidence in the articles that this is true. They are articles about offenses; some proven, some not, where there is no mention of CRB checks.
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