CRB vetting to watch your kids play sport?

[BrilloPad]

Parents without criminal record checks banned from watching their kids play school sport | Mail Online

This must be a wind up surely?

[d000hg]

That one school does it, probably not.

Worse is that parents who don't get a CRB check might be viewed with suspicion.

[eek]

Parents without criminal record checks banned from watching their kids play school sport | Mail Online

This must be a wind up surely?

no its a stupid school with a head and board of governors who now have a lot of explaining to do.

[SimonMac]

You mean like the same CRB checks that are run on maths teachers?

[d000hg]

Your post seems to be entirely sarcasm with zero content. What point exactly are you making, that CRB should check future events?

[Old Hack]

I helped out on sporting occasions and coaching, occasionally (if home) at the kids school last year and most parents did, and continue to. We all had to have CRB checks. I thinkit makes sense, if on school grounds, etc and don't find it alarming. However, if it's watching your kids play sport competitively against other schools, I think it's a bit odd.

[SimonMac]

I helped out on sporting occasions and coaching, occasionally (if home) at the kids school last year and most parents did, and continue to. We all had to have CRB checks. I thinkit makes sense, if on school grounds, etc and don't find it alarming. However, if it's watching your kids play sport competitively against other schools, I think it's a bit odd.

I think that is a sensible approach, if you have regular contact in a formal structure where there is a position of trust, coach, scout leader etc, but ad hoc like attending a sports event, or taking someone else's kid to school (think that was a hair-brained idea I read about last year) its ridiculous.

[d000hg]

If you're interacting with others' kids, there's some sense in it. Standing at a public site watching the kids doing sport under the supervision of teachers etc, what do they think you're going to do?

[stek]

If you're interacting with others' kids, there's some sense in it. Standing at a public site watching the kids doing sport under the supervision of teachers etc, what do they think you're going to do?

There's always a bloke in a raincoat watching us as we play football in the park. They're ok, they'd give you a lolly if you tugged one of them off - trouble is I'm 51 now and surely it's my turn for the raincoat.....

[northernladuk]

I think this comment says it all and should be enough to shame the school...

Other schools in Swindon have no plans to follow Isambard Community School's policy