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their carers. The former are viewed as inherently fragile, the latter as
potentially predatory. It represents the institutionalisation of misanthropy,
whereby thinking the worst about people is viewed as a positive civic
duty and positive social care value.
This report calls for a more positive and humane view of carers and
the adults they help. Abuse is not the norm. The money spent on CRB
checking and monitoring carers would be more productively spent on
delivering social and health services to the public. What is needed, we
argue, is to roll back this suspicious bureaucracy, which is preventing
adults from caring for other adults and wasting vast amounts of public
money that could be better spent.
Endnotes
1 ‘Protection of Children: disclosure of
criminal background of those with access
to children’, Home Office Circular no.47/1993
2 CRB checks: Guidance for departments,
Queen Mary University of London www.hr.
qmul.ac.uk/docs/policies_procedures/
recruitment/2550.pdf
3 Christian volunteers help get people home
safely www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/
durham/8127206.A_shoulder_to_lean_on_for_
city_centre_drinkers
4 www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/hailsham-news/
Age-Concern-urges-people-to.6334873.jp
5 Figures for 2002–9 from Manifesto Club
Freedom of Information Act request to
CRB, no.14597
6 Figures for 2009–10 from Manifesto Club
Freedom of Information Act request to CRB,
no.14597. These figures were given for up
to the end of February 2010, so have been
scaled up proportionally to cover until the
end of March 2010
7 CRB response to Manifesto Club FOI request,
29 April 2010
8 The vetting database is currently under
review, and an announcement is expected at
the start of 2011
9 See FOI response, ref:16203 www.crb.
homeoffice.gov.uk/pdf/FOI%2016203_.pdf
10 On the basis of £36 fee, and £20 admin
fee, per CRB check. See FOI response,
ref:16094 www.crb.homeoffice.gov.uk/pdf/
FOI%2016094.pdf
11 www.lep.co.uk/news/nhs_workers_criminal_
check_cost_standoff_1_928690
12 Post on Saga website, 12 January 2010
www.sagazone.co.uk/forums/thread/54062/
13 This section develops material first
discussed in McLaughlin, K. (2010) ‘Control
and Social Work: A reflection on some
twenty-first century developments’, Practice,
vol.22, no.3, pp.143–154
14 In the over three years I was there it was
only when I organised a summer playscheme
for the children that I was required to have
a police check, as I was then seen as in
loco parentis
15 Report on Mental Capacity, Law Commission
no.231, 1995
16 No Secrets: Guidance on developing and
implementing multi-agency policies and
procedures to protect vulnerable adults
from abuse, Department of Health, 2000,
Para 2.4 www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/
groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/
digitalasset/dh_4074540.pdf
17 Care Standards Act 2000, Department of Health,
part VII, S80(6) www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/
acts2000/ukpga_20000014_en_9#pt7-pb1-l1g80
18 This refers to those subject to supervision
by the probation service.
19 This includes services which provide support,
assistance, advice or counselling to individuals
with particular needs.
20 A person falls within this subsection if
(a) he has particular needs because of his
age; (b) he has any form of disability;
(c) he has a physical or mental problem of
such description as is prescribed; (d) she
is an expectant or nursing mother in receipt
of residential accommodation pursuant to
arrangements made under section 21(1) (aa)
of the National Assistance Act 1948 or
care pursuant to paragraph 1 of Schedule 8
to the National Health Service Act 1977
(c. 49); (e) he is a person of a prescribed
description not falling within paragraphs
(a) to (d)
21 This refers to those in receipt of ‘direct
payments’
22 Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006,
Department of Health, S.59 www.opsi.gov.uk/
acts/acts2006/ukpga_20060047_en_5#pb14-l1g59
23 ISA (2008) (Independent Safeguarding
Authority) ‘ISA Scheme Consultation
Document Formal Government Response’,
30 May 2008 www.fairplayforchildren.org/
pdf/1218024387.pdf
24 Community Care Statistics 2007-08:
Referrals, Assessments and Packages of
Care for Adults, England, The Health and
Social Care Information Centre, 2009 www.
ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/Social%20
Care/RAP%20Full%20Report/2007-08/RAP%20
Report.pdf
25 Community Care Statisitcs 2008: Home care
services for adults, England www.ic.nhs.
uk/statistics-and-data-collections/
social-care/adult-social-care-information/
community-care-statistics-2008:-help-careservices-for-adults-england
26 Royal College of General Practitioners
www.rcgp.org.uk/patient_information/
what_is_general_practice.aspx
27 NHS Mental Health Minimum Dataset
www.mhmdsonline.ic.nhs.uk/statistics.asp
report_ID=1&results_type=national&sha_ID=&
provider_ID=&natyear=&n=&remember=report_
ID%3D1%26results_type%3Dnational
28 HM Prison Service Population Bulletin Weekly
30th April 2010 www.hmprisonservice.gov.
uk/resourcecentre/publicationsdocuments/
index.aspcat=85
29 Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006:
ISA Scheme Consultation Document,
14 November 2007, page 8 www.dcsf.gov.uk/
consultations/downloadableDocs/SVG%20
Act%20ISA%20consultation%20final.pdf
30 Regulating Trust: who will be on the vetting
database, p.15 (emphasis in original),
Manifesto Club, 2009 www.manifestoclub.com/
files/RegulatingTrust.pdf
31 UK Study of Abuse and Neglect 2007 assets.
comicrelief.com/cr09/docs/elderabuseprev.pdf
32 NHS Information Centre Statistics www.ic.nhs.
uk/statistics-and-data-collections/socialcare/older-people
33 Look on the bright side of ‘later life’ by
Ken McLaughlin www.spiked-online.com/index.
php/site/article/3811/
34 The protection of Vulnerable Adults List:
An investigation of referral patterns and
approaches to decision making, Department
of Health 2008 www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_
dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/
documents/digitalasset/dh_086637.pdf
35 Response to Manifesto Club FOI request to
CRB, no.16057
36 Checking Physiotherapists www.manifestoclub.
com/blog/4page=2
37 Email sent to Manifesto Club Vetting Blog
38 www.manifestoclub.com/node/587
39 There were 5,221 students enrolled on
initial social work qualifying degrees in
2007-08. Parliament UK www.publications.
parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmchi
lsch/527/52706.htm
40 Interview with Josie Appleton in Brighton,
July 2010
41 See case of Raymond Tallis in report,
‘Volunteering Made Difficult’
42 Email to Campaign Against Vetting