>> There may have been a recent change in the rules, possibly at same time as
>> infrequent but regular visitors were proposed to be brought into scope of CRB checking. That
>> was eased after a public campaign by the author Michael Rosen.
Some members of the WI here run a lunchtime craft club once a week at the village school. The children love it, they learn to knit, sew, cook etc. They are not really alone with the children, but they all have to be (well they are) CRB checked. The theory behind it is that as regular visitors they have the opportunity to build up a relationship with a child which could be continued outside school.
The members think it's a bit of a joke, but they submit to it for the sake of the children, who love the activities.
Wasn't it Michael Morpurgo, and Philip Pullman, who made an issue of it? In the case of authors, they might do regular school visits but rarely to the same class, or even school, twice and always with a teacher.
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