[sclug] Looks like volunteering linux boxes to schools is now criminal offense

[John Stumbles]

alan c wrote:

> I do computer volunteer work for Age Concern and also for a local 
> charity with adults with learning difficulty. It has been necessary to 
> get an Enhanced Disclosure clearance certificate for some of this. It 
> was an irritation, but the 5 areas of checks made showed as ok, which is 
> what I would have expected, I am glad to say.

The Register article is not criticising CRB-checking, it (or its author, 
John Ozimek) is claiming that the new regime may include "a subjective 
element ? or be based on a statistical technique not unlike credit 
scoring" - and other concerns.

-- 
John Stumbles