I'm increasingly concerned at the way exaggerated fears of paedophilia are being plastered over by demands for additional CRB checking.
My dp runs a community transport service and he spends a fair proportion of his working week dealing with CRB checks. He concludes that while the results can be marvellously satisfying for the congenitally nosy, the process itself isn't an overly effective way of screening out people who shouldn't work with young people and/or vulnerable adults. A CRB check proves that someone hasn't been caught. Yet.
At the same time, it can mean the dismissal of an otherwise good member of staff because they once, many years earlier, committed an offence (entirely unrelated to child abuse) that drops the offender into the category of "beyond redemption". Of course, in an ideal but unreal world, everyone who came into contact with children/vulnerable adults would have an impeccable reputation but the CRB check takes no account of how a very youthful transgressor might have grown up to be a pillar of the local community.
If there is too great an insistence on CRB checking everyone who might, just possibly, be allowed to speak to an "unprotected" child then many activities will simply come to an end for the lack of volunteers. It isn't good enough to say that only people who have something relevant to hide will wish to avoid a CRB check either.
In the meantime, the serious business of paedophilia goes on far beyond the reach of a CRB check. Indeed, it wasn't until I worked on an investigation into grooming that I realised just how clever and horribly cunning the committed child abusers were.