A mother from Wales is required to have a CRB check before escorting her own severely epileptic son to school!!!
He is liable to have a seizure whilst travelling in the taxi provided by the local authority and his mother is qualified to administer the necessary medication, she would not come into contact with any other child than her own!
The full story is HERE.
Are the powers that be in the UK now completely demented?!! The more of this kind of idiocy I hear the more I begin to really dislike my own country. Are those holding positions of authority no longer able to make individual judgements because the nanny has state has rendered them completely witless and unable to rationalise anything at all?
Best I say no more for fear of a long line of expletives being the only likely result!
Thursday, 10 July 2008
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Nothing to say on the post, but that's a maaaaahvelous header and background.
The answer to your question is yes. The powers that be are completely demented and have abdicated all responsibility for individual decision-making to the State for fear of being sued.
This is so ludicrous - I'd like to say I can't believe it's true, but sadly I find it all too easy. If I were that mother I'd refuse to send my child to school in that taxi unless and until I were allowed to accompany him. That senseless and insane ruling removes all her rights and dignity as a mother, for goodness' sake and she's clearly one of the good guys!!
Makes you want to give up, doesn't it?
Bulldog: Thank you..it's not very 'me' tho, doubltless it will be gone in a matter of days like most of em ;o)
Jay: It makes me want to do a lot of things...none of them good! :o(
""For the protection of the council and all vulnerable persons in its care it's essential all those endowed with an authority, implicit or explicit, should meet the security requirements within the transport contract provisions.""
In other words, We're covering our ass so we don't sued. what is the phrase? Stupid gits!
Er, yeah, and I had bothered to read Jay's comment first, I would have seen that, so what she said, yeah...
It's been so nice being over here in France this past week and escaping from all that sort of idiocy!
So, she's qualified to have her son at home, but not qualified to take him to school without a CRB?
One side of the aisle over here in the Colonies is trying to push us in the same direction, but many of us have our shoulder to the door, and are holding fairly well.
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