I used to be involved with a group running children's holidays. They take individual children on summer camps and also run term-time weeks for schools. Most of these run at a residential centre on a farm. The resident owner of the farm was last year convicted of abusing a Brownie in 1983, after another little girl complained last year.
Now the organisation has written to everyone to say that he's a terribly nice man, he's very upset, the press reports are sensationalist and everyone involved should stay schtumm. It looks as if they kept on running events for schoolchildren there throughout the autumn without telling the schools involved that a convicted sex offender lived on the premises - and they plan to go on running events there as long as they can. Some clients have found out and are have cancelled bookings as a result.
Does this sound a bit risky, or am I just falling for modern hysteria about paedophiles? It seems wrong to me that the local Safeguarding Children Board should be warning users, but that one user should be trying to conceal this from the schools who send children to them.