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[Nickbat]

What gets me is that the Mayor of Watford says that the council staff are "CRB checked and legit". How many times do I have to point out that a CRB check confers no guarantee of child safety...absolutely none.

Indeed, if employment references are fully investigated, it should be, to all intents and purposes,  impossible for a convicted child molester to get a job involving child care. But they continue to imply that a CRB check means that someone is "legit" (the Mayor's words).

Would Ian Brady and Myra Hindley have passed a CRB check either before, or during the time, they committed those gruesome murders?

I think the answer says it all.

[Kevin Wood]

I think this all harks back to today's blame culture.

Used to be the case that anyone could do anything legal within reason. If someone with some responsibility decided that it was perhaps not a great idea for certain individuals to hang around in the park they'd have a quiet word and it's be sorted.

Nowadays we have the reverse: an @rse-covering culture where the default is that you can't do a damned thing unless some official has risk-assessed it and spotted a clause that covers his @rse if it all goes t*ts up. 

So, they make up a stupid rule, get told it's above their pay grade and to stop being so silly, and there it is: @rse covered.

Safety of kids doesn't even come into it, sadly, so it doesn't matter if a CRB check is worth the paper it's written on.

Kevin