Sunday 28 March 2010

Watford Woes

No, not Watford Football Club, but the elected Mayor of Watford, a Liberal Dozycrat, Dorothy Thornhill. A good looking wench.

I quote from her blog:

What has happened to the world!!! When a council fails to safeguard children they are, quite rightly pilloried in every newspaper. Yet, when we take a positive decision to safeguard children, by ensuring that all children left at a supervised play session are only left under the care of qualified CRB checked and legit staff, we get hounded for it! One journalist even declared we were breaching the human rights of the parents we don’t want hanging around!!!!!!!

We run two great adventure playground facilities that operate as a drop off for parents after school and at weekends. We have done this for years, no worries, parents happy and appreciative.

At one playground a few parents started to stay around for all the sessions, this increased to the extent that staff felt they were spending more time worrying about what the parents were up to rather than watching and supervising the children!What has happened to the world!!! When a council fails to safeguard children they are, quite rightly pilloried in every newspaper. Yet, when we take a positive decision to safeguard children, by ensuring that all children left at a supervised play session are only left under the care of qualified CRB checked and legit staff, we get hounded for it! One journalist even declared we were breaching the human rights of the parents we don’t want hanging around!!!!!!!

We run two great adventure playground facilities that operate as a drop off for parents after school and at weekends. We have done this for years, no worries, parents happy and appreciative.

At one playground a few parents started to stay around for all the sessions, this increased to the extent that staff felt they were spending more time worrying about what the parents were up to rather than watching and supervising the children!


Dear me. The suggestion that every parent is a potential paedophile is insulting. More than that, it shows an authoritarian streak which is the opposite of what 'liberal' means to me. I would have thought parents should be encouraged to take an interest in their children, not use the playground as a means of off-loading them. There has been a spate of cases recently where children have been abused, starved, beaten and killed by their parents/guardians. In all these cases statutory organisations failed the children. Now we have a Mayor who encourages separation of responsible parents from their kids. Bonkers.

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