How About Not Being Allowed To Watch Even the Children of Relatives, Without A License?
Mothers are banned from looking after each other’s children
Two working mothers have been banned from looking after each other’s toddlers because they are not registered childminders.
The close friends’ private arrangement had let them both return to part-time jobs at the same company.
However, a whistleblower reported them to the education watchdog Ofsted and it found their informal deal broke the law.
This was because little-known rules say friends cannot gain a ‘reward’ by looking after a child for more than two hours outside the child’s home without agreeing to a number of checks including one from the Criminal Records Bureau.
Although the mothers never paid each other, their job-sharing deal was judged to be a ‘reward’. Campaigners fear thousands of working families could be innocently breaking the rules by relying on close friends for informal childcare.
‘There is no conceivable rationale behind it. It’s like making the assumption that all parents are pedophiles and they have to prove that they aren’t. As soon as we create a society like that then family life ceases. Parents have to have the confidence to make their own choices about their own children. This is absolutely extraordinary.’
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I just thought this was interesting, this new law in Britain to protect children demands that anyone looking after children for more than two hours a day must undergo a criminal background check and other steps to be certified as being safe. How about saying, “mom I need you to look after your grandchildren would you step over here so I can take your fingerprints please?”
