Brit Parents Without Criminal Background Check Banned From Taking Kids to Playgrounds

Tom Whitehead
Telegraph
October 29, 2009

[efoods]Only council-vetted “play rangers” are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence.

The Watford Borough Council policy has been attacked as insulting and a disgrace by furious relatives who say they are being labelled as potential paedophiles.

It will further fuel concerns over a growing nanny state amid the deepening row over the Government’s new national anti-paedophile database.

That will see at least 11 million adults have to be vetted to work with children or vulnerable adults, including parents who give officials lifts to and from social or sports clubs.

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This article was posted: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:21 am

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