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I wonder what the Donny forums have to say about it?

That picture is clearly fake anyway becuase if you look closely you'll see there's a tab referring to page 6 of a thread about Brian Stock on TSW, and everybody knows there is no thread about Brian Stock on TSW.

matthew! Don't wind up the mods... it's their forum and their rules etc!

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Did he produce Al Green's "Let's Stay Together". I love that song ... it's an awesome backdrop to the scene featuring it in Pulp Fiction.

Do they do CRB checks?

FWIW, I'd rather have a go with Jayne Wisener who plays Lauren...

Certainly, I'd run a mile from any woman who addressed me using an interent pseudonym. She might have seen my failed attempts at sarcasm on here for instance.

I'm not sure the Old Bill would see it like that, but it's good to see people getting involved in politics, no matter how small!

Well, the Tesco call charges are 20p / min and texts are 10p each. However, you do get half price calls and texts to your 5 favourite numbers, so that'a 10p/min and 5p/text. For the sake of argument, let's stick with the standard prices and assume that our £60 monthly credit is going to be split evenply between calls and texts. We therefore have £30 to spend on calls and £30 to be spent on texts. If my calculations are correct, that would work out to 150mins of calls and 300 texts. So you'd get a fair bit less to play with but you've only spent £330 as opposed to £449 on the handset, so you've saved £119 up front. Over the 12 months, that £119 is equivalent to an extra £9.91 per month so you're certainly paying for the extra minutes. My advice is to make sure you use them, otherwise they will have been expensive! ;-)

Sounds exciting, but a little bit Dr Who for my liking.

There's a billboard with David Cameron's ugly mug on it at the junction of Shirley Road and Waterloo Road. Somebody has painted over his pupils with white paint to make him look odd, as well as painting "*****" and "vote lib" on his shoulders. I lol'd.

So it will do some good then. As I said, nobody here thinks it full proof, but you tried to state it will do nothing to improve safety. What's your alternative?

looks a little common to me but each to their own.

Any particular reason for choosing the O2 route as opposed the Tesco one? I guess you decided you wanted the extra minutes?

For teachers I guess it's not really an issue. A teacher charged with child related offences is hardly going to be able to keep it under wraps. I don't know how volunteer organisations like the Scouts etc work so can't comment on them. There's something to be said for holding more info about us though I guess.

Nobody is putting their entire trust in the system; if you read the thread you'll see there's much scepticism about the current system. However, to say that it does not increase safety at all is just plain wrong.

RIght, but the CRB isn't about screening parents, it's about screening people who work with children and that's what this conversation was about. Talking about parents who abuse children is a separate issue. Checking to see if somebody is a convicted paedophile before employing them to work with children, surely reduces the chances of paedophiles working with children.

ps ponty ... the thread title should have had the word "cancelled" in it but I arsed it up. Could you alter it please?

I'm sure they'll find some mischief to get up to instead.

What an absurd statement. How can it possibly not make children safer? Nobody is suggesting it's foolproof, what is? But how on earth can you suggest that checking criminal history doesn't make kids any safer?

The group have decided to cancel according to the BBC

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DD .. are you having a laugh with that comment!?!?!?! Yes ... it's a fair requirement that all people working with young people have to prove they have not been convicted of anything dubious. How on earth could that be wrong?!?!?! What alternative would you suggest? Just seeing if job applicants look like paedophiles?

You don't have to have more than one as a rule. The duplication comes when you conduct new activities which require a CRB check. You then need to get a new one in case you've been convicted of anything since having the last onedone. It's just a piece of paper showing your criminal record status at the time the check was done. They're not 'live' documents which are automatically updated. It's pretty archaic.