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If the government is so keen to get people involved in volunteering, to the extent of making it compulsory (not sure how that makes sense?) why are they so hell bent on excluding some people from the experience simply because of who they are and where they're from? The wierd rules and regulations around volunteering seem so abstract from the actual process itself which is ultimately about sharing experiences, helping one another and, for some, doing something that you believe strongly and passionately in.

That something as 'community building' that really draws people together can be kept from some people in society BY LAW - it's incredible.

in the west we are control freaks, a million and one laws are made every day to control and protect ourselves against...ourselves and each other. It’s in our nature; we are scaremongerers, always expectant of paedos lurking in the bushes everywhere. We buy in to the panic. We react to sensationalised events with an influx of rules, regulations, monitoring and bureaucracy. I work in the youth sector, and I do completely appreciate that safety measures need to be taken to protect young people, I am all for that, but what is missing from this overly bureaucratic process is the consideration of one’s sound judgement.
But more importantly, I think the whole system needs to be centralised, this is what really annoys me. I hate having to complete a CRB form for each and every youth organisation I work for, it makes no sense. I recently had to complete 2 CRB checks within the space of a week, as I had to do a separate one for each organisation I was working for, it’s crazy, and it’s £60 a check. What a waste of time and resources. Surely just one should be recognised for all organisations and valid for a set period of time. Sort it out.

I love amins ingenuity putting together a well organised massive football tournament, on his own! Surely community sports should be encouraged. It’s almost laughable that he is singled out from his peers, people his own age group and police checked, just because he had the initiative to organise it. So silly.

people are already put off volunteering but for me it is also about how see each other, if we don't trust each other further than we can fill in a form than we have lost a lot of what makes our society a safe place to live in.

i have to say i never really thought of the CRB check in this way, this story has broadened my horizon..great stuff keep it up!!!

i join on this project cos i feel strongly on this issue, i feel eventually people will be put off of volunteering as a result of these checks and thats not right. we have to question on weather these check are done for some sort of statistics or something because by someone having the check doesn't mean they are 100% trustworthy because people can change but still have the "trusted piece of paper" in my opinion this check is just a diversion of blame. a massage to the government 'let us trust who we want, don't take that way cos what else u gonna take away next'

What a great short film I found it very revealing and hadn't real though about it in this way before. I think we all just assume more and more must be done to protect vulnerable people but from who we could ask ? Here its clear that everyone is under suspicion untill checked by poilice- that is scary-trust noone except people in uniform and those with a piece of paper issued by them. This is very corrosive and dangerous we will end up trusting noone.

Interesting comments so far and ones that I would support. My organisation, Nacro, takes the view that the interests of children and vulnerable adults must take precedence over the interests of ex-offenders. However, the interests of both groups are not incompatible, for very large numbers of people with criminal records have a great deal to offer the most vulnerable people in society and would not dream of harming anyone. At the same time, their exclusion from paid and voluntary work means that the very same vulnerable people lose out on the help they need. The introduction of Disclosure checks has resulted in considerable exclusion. It has meant that large numbers of people are not putting themselves forward for both paid and unpaid work because they are too embarrassed to disclose stuff they have often put behind them a long time ago. Disclosing personal, private, confidential information is a big deal for most people. They are also not putting themselves forward because they feel they will be discriminated again, and they are right to fear discrimination. The Nacro helpline routinely receives calls from people refused employment, and volunteering opportunities, on the basis of ridiculously minor, old and/or irrelevant cautions and convictions. And usually the refusal is made by people acting, not on the basis of rigorous assessments of risk (few professionals know how to assess risk), but on the basis of their particular personal moral codes and prejudices.

I completely agree with the last comment - we all know as people how complex we are in our peronalities and relations. One of the biggest things that amazes me throughout life is how differently I do and see things now as I did five years ago, fifteen years ago, in my teens and twenties (I'm no spring chicken!). One of the surest things is that we develop, grow and change yet this system denies us what is a basic human development. I think it's limiting, suffocating and wrong.

I saw this film at an event and for the first time felt supported as i am a volunteer coordinator who struggles to place volunteers i work with because I work with many volunteers who have been in prison or involved in criminal activity. More and more now organisations choose to not take people with a previous conviction that had violence attached to it. I can understand this but don't we believe that people can change anymore, something i would have thought was a basic belief in our potential to improve. If volunteering is not even an option to the people i work with then where do they go, how do they develop. The last comment about teh "what if's" would mean that we deny so many people based on the "what if's". This really worries me.

Amin has get it pretty well covered. CRB checks are about reassuring a terrified Murdoch reading public, they aren't really intended to boost community action. They do indeed create a false security - look at the detected crime figures to see how weak such a system is.

I agree with the last comment vetting should not be a barrier to volunteering but we must protect vulnerable people. There are two sides to this and while the community football tournament example seems to show that this is the over the top I know how I would react if I read that a Football Manager had abused people in his team. The question is where do you draw the line so that it is fair to all and protects us all.

Again, i think there is a balance here. I think you need to have checks on people otherwise it will leave the door open for people who do NOT mean well to build relationships with vulnerable people. However we are just blindly checking people and not really thinking about it these days which i think is bad news especially for volunteering.

I totally agree with your dislike of CRB checks and can only imagine how many people they have put off helping their neighbours. The Government has bred in us as a society the need to ask permission before attempting anything and this has reduced us to the condition of children. In addition, we all know how poorly the government handles such data and cases of mistaken identity in CRB checks are frequent enough to cause alarm.