Child Protection

This article in today's Guardian by Polly Toynbee is well worth reading. In all the media furore about political correctness, it captures for me exactly why Ed Balls is right to push through this legislation. Parents must be able to be confident that the people they DON'T know who are in contact with their kids on behalf of schools and clubs have passed a simple check. It won't cost volunteers anything and it simplifies the current system by putting all the checks in one place. On this issue, John Humphreys and others on Radio 4/5 should stop attacking politicians and start giving them some credit.