MembersNEWNew in the Members’ Room: Zinovy Zinik reflects on vodka and life; John Ozimek takes up the new Vetting Database; Viv Regan presents a film on youth volunteering; JJ Charlesworth has a piece in Art Monthly on the trouble with art education; James Panton discusses ethical consumerism and child protection on BBC Radio. New on the Vetting Blog: Photography in pre-school; Serving police officer CRBed; Checking once, checking twice; Manifesto Club wins government u-turn; Model flying events cancelled. Read on… |
Serving police officer CRBedThis post on a police chat forum shows that even the boys in blue aren’t above suspicion: ‘For several years, I have been doing some informal "counselling" to adults and children who have a particular and very unusual genetic syndrome. Even though I was a serving police officer, I still had to have an up-to-date CRB check. I was told the other day that my CRB has just run out and it would cost £64 for a new enhanced one. The very same day, having recently retired, I had received my Certificate of Service, signed by my chief constable a few days prior and stating that I had completed 30-years service, and that my character was "exemplary". That counted for nothing: I would still have to have a CRB check.’ |
The Manifesto Club supports:All those who oppose the new Mayor's ban on drinking on the London Tube... 'Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity. Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding!' Immanuel Kant 'What characterises man is his extreme abundance of imagination; therefore, that man is a fantastic animal and that universal history is the gigantic, continuous and insistent effort to go, little by little, putting some order into the crazy fantasy.' José Ortega y Gasset |
