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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: MrsSmith on October 28, 2009, 09:33:11 PM
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Parents banned from watching their children in playgrounds... in case they are paedophiles
By Laura Clark
Last updated at 7:18 PM on 28th October 2009
Parents are being banned from playing with their children in council recreation areas because they have not been vetted by police.
Mothers and fathers are being forced to watch their children from outside perimeter fences because of fears they could be paedophiles.
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Children as young as five will instead be supervised by council 'play rangers' who have been cleared by the Criminal Records Bureau.
Councillors insist they are merely following Government regulations and cannot allow adults to walk around playgrounds 'unchecked'.
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Parents already have to 'register' their child on arrival so staff have their contact details in the event of an accident. But now only those who have been selected for CRB vetting by the council can enter the sites.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223528/Parents-banned-supervising-children-playgrounds--case-paedophiles.html#ixzz0VHwGa7Sp
:thatsright:
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This very story makes me so glad Hoekstra is my Rep. He's fighting damn hard to establish the Parents Bill of Rights, to ensure shit like this doesn't happen here.
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England is becoming a full fledged nanny state.
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Messed up. No wonder why UK is going down hill.
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The Limeys Jumped the Shark YEARS ago.
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When I was in the car this afternoon listening to Rush, the local news came on at "the top of the hour"....
The newscaster was reading a list of what registered sex offenders cannot do with Halloween coming up....
They may not decorate their houses for Halloween.
They may not go trick or treating with their children.
They may not pass out Halloween candy or even have their front porchlight on.
They may not go to church activities if children are present.
They may not go to their children's Halloween events at school.
They may not go to haunted houses, corn mazes, etc.
They may not dress up in costumes for Halloween.
Those are just the ones I can remember.
The newscaster said that there would be case workers going out to various places and dropping by homes of registered SO's, looking for any that are breaking the conditions of their registered sex offender status.
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Parents must not be allowed to hinder pedophiles while they're searching for a victim.....rights man, it's all about rights.
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Read my sig line............ that kind of says it all......
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"Play rangers?" Yeah, that doesn't sound fruity or anything.
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As bad as it is, this is the action of one council in a small town just outside London. There has been some serious backlash for this Liberal democrat Mayor and her party and the backtracking has begun.
The phrase 'political correctness gone mad' is overused. But I can't think of a better way of describing what is happening in Watford. Essentially, parents have been barred from public playgrounds in parks. Instead, they are forced to wait outside the railings whilst council-employed "play facilitators" assist the children.
The council claim it is due to Ofsted regulations, although Ofsted have stated "only people working with children needed to be checked, not all adults on the premises. It added: 'We would never seek to prevent parents and carers having access to their own children.'"
The most pernicious quote is from the Mayor of Watford, the LibDem Dorothy Thornhill:
'Sadly, in today's climate, you can't have adults walking around unchecked in a children's playground.'
Honestly. Why not ban parents from having children, then? Wouldn't that save us all a lot of heartache worrying about paedophiles. What is it about some politicians that they have simply lost the ability to differentiate between a real danger and trying to get all bases covered. Of course society should take all reasonable steps to protect children from danger, but when it gets to the stage that all adults are seen as potential child molesters we really do have to start asking questions.
And for a supposedly 'Liberal' mayor to go along with this raises all sorts of questions about what it means to be a Liberal Democrat nowadays.
And believe me, I'd be writing exactly the same thing if this concerned a Conservative mayor.
The full background to the story is HERE in Metro.
UPDATE 2.15pm: The LibDems are in full flow trying to deflect this as a non story. However, perhaps they might like to explain why Dorothy Thornhill deleted this story from her blog...
http://dorothythornhill.mycouncillor.org.uk/2009/10/28/adventure-playgrounds-no-adults-please/
I think we should be told.
UPDATE 2.20pm: And what do we know. Heresy Corner has retrieved Mayor Thornhill's blogpost HERE, in which she defends the action. So, what prompted her to delete this blogpost if, as the LibDems say, this is a storm in a teacup?
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6214838&postID=1429795011997180353&pli=1
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"It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness." --James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
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Humm, I'd like to see WHO would/could stop me from watching MY child at the playground.