Labour Government uses child protection as backdoor route to ID Cards

Dear All

ID cards have prompted a public revolt, so they were dropped.

Now the Government has another scheme to get people on a database using child protection as an excuse.

This is an invasion of civil liberties and shows that Labour is not above using dead children for political ends.

It paints New Labour for what they are control freaks.

The Children's Minister wants millions of Britons placed on a new Big Brother-style child protection database.

As a selling point the Labour Government highlighted the Soham murders.

Ian Huntley had to go through a CRB check before he got the job, so there are no safeguards. He used a different name to circumvent the system.

If a parent transgresses the proposed law by not registering they could face a £5,000 fine.

And a criminal record!

What would their crime have been?

Well, driving their children's friends to a sports event or Cub Scout meeting, if they have not been vetted first by the massive new government agency.

So, the UK Government gets to kill two birds with one stone, criminalise more of the population and get their details on a database.

An astonishing 11.3million people are likely to come under the Independent Safeguarding Authority.

Child protection minister Baroness Morgan said the new database would help avoid 'another Soham': 'The new vetting and barring scheme that's come into place is not about regulating agreements between parents in their own homes or running children to and from clubs.

That is a lie. If people want to murder then a database will not stop them.

It is these types of actions that will drive away volunteers, clubs and activities close down and communities will be lesser places.

Philip Pullman, a best-selling author of His Dark Materials pledged to stop giving readings in schools in protest at the scheme.

The Government claims that it wants more people to volunteer to help the community, the price of doing unpaid work in your free time, treated like a criminal is £100.

For a piece of paper, you get no money, give up your time and have to pay your own expenses.

Would this means the end of community service?

If the check is required then surely criminals doing community service would be barred from helping the elderly?

As with any Labour proposals; they are so stupid as not to think their ideas through to their logical conclusion.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University