One started last night with several prominent authors complaining about having to be vetted to visit schools. Whilst all are in agreement that children need to be protected - they point out that they would not be left alone with children and there would be no familiarity as they would be visiting at most once a year.
Government ministers though will not have to be vetted it appears.
This shows even more signs of the governments view that people are guilty until proven innocent and will add to the growing mistrust between the generations. Unfortunately we live in a country where the governments idea of a solution is to have everybody spying on everybody else so rather than having community that look to help each other, and watch out for their children we end up with one where adults are afraid to help a child that is in trouble - for fear of being accused with being a paedophile.
Should the Liberal Democrats obtain more power, they would move to solve some of these issues - for starters the bill of rights they propose would permanently set the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty in the statute books. Along side with policys to improve comunity cohesion and for civil rights adults will be protected as well as children and that can only benefit us all.
Government ministers though will not have to be vetted it appears.
This shows even more signs of the governments view that people are guilty until proven innocent and will add to the growing mistrust between the generations. Unfortunately we live in a country where the governments idea of a solution is to have everybody spying on everybody else so rather than having community that look to help each other, and watch out for their children we end up with one where adults are afraid to help a child that is in trouble - for fear of being accused with being a paedophile.
Should the Liberal Democrats obtain more power, they would move to solve some of these issues - for starters the bill of rights they propose would permanently set the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty in the statute books. Along side with policys to improve comunity cohesion and for civil rights adults will be protected as well as children and that can only benefit us all.
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