[modeleng] Re: Giving rides to small children
- From: Mike Leahy <heisler9-modeleng2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:43:38 +0100
Ron Head wrote on 10/10/05 9:30 pm:
> We reviewed the information sheet at my club, decided it was nannyism gone
> mad, and that we would carry on as normal.
>
>
Hi Ron
I'm surprised that your most revered club has chosen to adopt the stance
you state.
The guidelines are just that 'guidelines' and are there to help clubs in
respect of this touchy subject. All most clubs need to do is to carry on as
normal. The model engineering fraternity consists of the most reasonable,
rational, sane and well-adjusted members of society (now that's sticking my
head above the parapet ;->) and we usually don't step outside what are to be
considered the normal mores of life. (Except for grown men playing trains!)
You will see in the Southern Federation News that went out at the same time
as the guidelines that our insurers have recently added an exclusion clause
to our insurance cover, regarding abuse, because of possible claims arising
from this very subject. So if any club was to have a claim made against them
for abuse (the meaning is also defined in the same note) then the club could
find itself out on a limb, particularly if it was proven that it had chosen
to ignore taking reasonable precautions. At the very least make your members
aware of its content.
Bye-the-way, the exclusion is not a cost reduction exercise by our insurers
but a fact that abuse it is actually illegal and insurers do not normally
cover illegalities.
> We haven't had any paedophiles
> in our 50-year history, and if we did they would soon be drummed out of the
> club.
Are you sure???? I am aware of one club that did a CRB check and three
members came with, shall we say, irregularities. A member of another club
was traced as receiving nasty images over the internet.
--
Regards
Mike Leahy
South Ockendon UK
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