cap n chris
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.... which precludes new people/children joining, presumably, then?
Surely you mean "and" instead of "or"?
Surely you mean "and" instead of "or"?
cap 'n chris said:How else can a parent make a balanced/sound decision about the suitability of the proposed leader other than by the potential leader showing "proof", i.e. leader training/qualification/CRB'd?
cap 'n chris said:I suspect BCA recognises that this is an avenue down which caving clubs will be forced to travel and hence the original thread quoting a document suggesting children are unsuited* for inclusion in the UK club caving scene, thereby solving the problem at a stroke.
cap 'n chris said:Ignoring this fact is your prerogative. BCA can't, though.
Clive G said:Where is your evidence that children have been harmed by good caving practice?
I'll bet a pound to a pinch of shit that the leader of that trip had been CRB checked
Andy Sparrow said:Cookie, you cannot have a statement clearer than 'we do not regard caving as a suitable activity for "children"' If that is not the policy of BCA, and I hope that it isn't, we urgently need clarification of where BCA does stand on this issue.
cap 'n chris said:Clive G said:Where is your evidence that children have been harmed by good caving practice?
Strange logic.
I'll bet a pound to a pinch of shit that the leader of that trip had been CRB checked
Is CRB checking supposed to make people immune to circumstance?
Is this all getting a bit OT?
cap 'n chris said:Haven't got any info from the Inquest, so can't comment with any certainty.
Clive G said:If you don't trust parents to make the right judgement for their children then why not ban children from existing at all? QED.
A mother has been told she cannot travel to school with her severely epileptic son because she has not been police checked...
Mrs Jones, 41, who is Alex's full-time carer, said: "I still don't understand why being his parent and being trained to use his drugs, I'm not allowed in the taxi.
"I would be in no contact with any children other than my own child.
"It would be a case of me going to school and catching a bus home and that's it.
Mrs Jones said he required 32 anti-convulsant drugs each day.
cap 'n chris said:If, as you state, experience is to be valued above training and qualifications, how are you to gain this valuable commodity "experience of leading groups of children" nowadays when you are required to have the training, CRB and qualifications in order to do so in the first place?