From BBC News: "Parents who regularly drive children for sports or social clubs will have to undergo criminal record checks or face fines of up to £5,000 under new rules."
This thinking is in line with that of Marci Hamilton’s, the author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children (2008). I watched Marci Hamilton give a talk on CSPAN’s BookNotes months ago wherein she indicated that as much as 80 percent of abuse on children are carried out by people the children know.
The BBC article goes on to indicate that critics of the measure are indicating that volunteers will be driven away from helping. My reaction is that maybe those volunteers who are driven away are the ones who should not be around children in the first place.
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