My wife told me today that she can't treat children because she's not trained for it. She's been a (SRN) nurse for 35 years and has brought up two girls, run youth groups, been first aider at school sports days bla bla bla. Has about 12 CRBs on the go.
This country will disappear up its own backside before long. 
And if they didn't do the check on everyone and let the one person through who turns out to be a kiddy fiddler, how long would it be before you were on here banginig on about it?
Its done for a reason, long term sevice means nothing unfortunately
You make an important point in this and your other post Phil.
The problem with such legislation however is that it appears to try to embrace every matter and take care of every eventuality: but by doing so, appears to become overly legislative and cumbersome in practice.
There seems to so much duplication of effort, time wasted and resources expended that it makes the laudable reason for having such legislation enacted in the first place fall into ridicule.
There is now, in this country, a fundamental disconnect between reasonable caution, exercised in a proportionate sensible way, and the excessive application of the dictates of such legislation by individuals, many of whom are merely box tickers, solely interested in retaining their jobs.
Insofar as your point about 'kiddie fiddlers' is concerned, with the deplorable standard and lack good sense and awareness regularly exhibited by our public officials, there is no guarantee that such people wouldn't escape notice.
Again, as with so many of the initiatives trundled out for the ‘betterment’ of society, the H&S legislation often falls to live up to its expectation - as it's very much a case of the theoretical overwhelming the practical.
Good sense and measured application have sadly given way to legions of jobs-worth zealots intent in applying the ‘rules’ at all costs.
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