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Luke Gittos
An inhumane presumption of guilt
As the Savile scandal reaches a new pitch, key principles of criminal justice are being sacrificed at the altar of victimhood.
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| Monday 15 October 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Savile: the mad hunt for a conspiracy of witches
With its contagion of accusation and counter-accusation, the Savile scandal has exposed the Salem-style irrationalism of the modern elite.
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| Wednesday 3 October 2012 |
Tim Black
The savaging of Jimmy Savile
The only beneficiary of the accusations against Savile is the suspicion-spreading child-protection industry.
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| Tuesday 3 July 2012 |
Tim Black
Why treat sports coaches as potential paedophiles?
Professor Heather Piper tells spiked that ‘no touch’ guidelines in sport are helping to poison adult-child relations.
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| Monday 5 September 2011 |
Tim Black
The NSPCC doesn’t help kids - it harms them
With its ceaseless promotion of fear and suspicion of adults, the NSPCC undermines organic bonds between generations.
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| Monday 8 August 2011 |
Heather Piper
Daring to criticise child protection policies
As a researcher into ‘no touch’ policies discovered, you criticise child-protection quangos at your peril.
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| Monday 14 February 2011 |
Josie Appleton
Freedom Bill: good news and bad news
The Lib-Cons’ overhaul of the vetting of adults who work with children doesn’t go nearly far enough.
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| Thursday 10 February 2011 |
Jennie Bristow
How the vetting frenzy alienates adults from kids
ESSAY: The state’s vetting of adults working with children suggests it no longer trusts us to use our judgement to socialise the next generation.
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| Wednesday 3 February 2010 |
Jennie Bristow
‘We’re afraid of our kids, and we’re afraid for them’
Anthony Horowitz, author of the bestselling teenage spy novels, talks to Jennie Bristow about vetting and the poisoning of adult-child relations.
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| Monday 14 December 2009 |
Appleton and Panton
Still absurd, insulting and authoritarian
Two key campaigners against Britain’s vetting database argue that Ed Balls’ ‘u-turn’ isn’t nearly enough: the vetting regime must be dismantled.
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| Wednesday 9 December 2009 |
Patrick Hayes
If you’re 16, you’re a potential abuser
With 127,000 children added to the vetting database annually, one young volunteer explains why being 16 is not so sweet.
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| Tuesday 10 November 2009 |
Tim Black
See? Mothers can be sex abusers, too
On the flimsiest of evidence, ChildLine and the NSPCC are now even spreading suspicion about the mother-child bond.
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| Wednesday 16 September 2009 |
Josie Appleton
Where were the vetting critics three years ago?
The politicians and children’s charities now questioning vetting regulations are the same people responsible for their creation.
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| Thursday 20 August 2009 |
Josie Appleton
How about safeguarding innocent adults?
In the name of protecting children, new vetting procedures will condemn adults based on hearsay and dubious decision-making.
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| Thursday 13 August 2009 |
Jennie Bristow
Why parents should oppose vetting
For generations, parents invited other adults to help raise and care for their kids. Now those relationships are being corroded by the state.
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| Friday 17 July 2009 |
Josie Appleton
Why we should support this writers’ revolt
Josie Appleton of the Manifesto Club hails Philip Pullman and other children’s authors who are refusing to submit to criminal records checks.
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| Thursday 18 September 2008 |
Jennie Bristow
Rule 15: Not everyone you know is a latent paedophile
Allowing everyone to vet their neighbours and partners won’t save children from abuse, but it will have a poisonous effect on community life.
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| Thursday 26 June 2008 |
Frank Furedi
Now you need a licence to interact with children
A new pamphlet, published today, argues that the UK government’s hysterical vetting of adults who work with kids is strangling social solidarity.
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| Friday 6 June 2008 |
Mick Hume
Vet the world!
The fetish for vetting anybody who goes near ‘the vulnerable’ is becoming more perverse. Read Mick Hume’s column in The Times.
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| Wednesday 25 July 2007 |
Josie Appleton
The ‘culture of vetting’ is destroying trust
Video comment: It is insane that grandmothers voluntarily helping at a facepainting party have to undergo a criminal records check first.
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