Vetting for children.

Remember your first summer job?

That first pay packet, earning your own crust for the first time(then blowing it in five mins and having to get a loan off your mum!). Well it would appear that the government is going to stick its huge socialist oar in and fuck it up.

Thousands of shops, restaurants and cafés will be forced to register their staff with a new child protection agency and have their criminal records checked if they employ children for weekend or summer holiday work.

Any staff responsible for supervising children under 16 will have to be vetted. The measure is in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act, which was passed in 2006. It was originally intended to screen teachers, nursery staff and youth workers more effectively by requiring them to register with a new quango, the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), but ministers have decided to extend its scope to businesses.

The ISA will conduct enhanced checks through the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and give individuals – at a cost of £64 each – a “seal of approval” for working with children. The measure also covers work experience.

So they add another cost to businesses. Do the math here, that is 64 quid for each employee that has to be checked out. Multiply that up by say 10 people and you can bet that many a small business will not be employing anyone in a summer job!

Thankfully some people are against this latest fuckwittery from New Labour:

The Manifesto Club, a pressure group that is campaigning against the Act, argues that it will not offer any greater protection. The group has also discovered that the Government’s estimated cost for setting up and running the ISA for the first five years has grown from £91.6 million to £246 million as its scope has increased.

Josie Appleton, a convenor of the club, said: “Jobs in the local supermarket or department store provide a taste of adult work and independence. CRB checking their supervisors is not only a bureaucratic nightmare, but also creates a suspicious atmosphere in the workplace.

“The Act will create an unwieldy, expensive child-protection bureaucracy that will do little to protect children but will instead drain the energy and resources of community groups and individuals who want to teach or take care of children.”

The new authority’s start date has also been delayed from the autumn of this year to October next year to give businesses time to prepare. The Government says that the ISA will be “self-funding” but employers will have to bear the £64 cost of registering each staff member, substantially more than the £36 charged for a CRB check.

So here are some figures:

HM governments Home Office(the people who lose our data), which now includes businesses employing under 16s, is that 11.3 million people will have to register.

So we have 11.3 million people and HM Govt states:

...that the ISA will be “self-funding” but employers will have to bear the £64 cost of registering each staff member,

Right so that works out at: £64 X 11 million people is, somewhere around £720 million quid a year. Yep the best part of a cool billion fucking quid on un-needed paperwork employing jobsworth cunts in the government.

A cost on business and a cool stealth tax on the part of New Labour.

So the chances of a job working in a chip shop for little Brian is going to cost the shop owner some 64 notes for each employee that he has and they all have to be checked. New Labour are very thorough about that. What is the odds that the chip shop owner is not going to pay the money and tell Brian to go away.

And what is the odds that should young Brian land a job, that it will be working for someone who has chosen to avoid the law.

This being New Labour's "Cool Britannia" the business person employing our Brian will be hauled up before the justices and legally fleeced for endangering a young person and at the end of it our poor Brian will still be out of a job thanks to dull cunts in New Labour who have not the slightest fucking clue about the free market or employment.After all they haul people up before the courts for displaying pounds on weighing scales and smoking in the wrong area, so the local SS officials in the council will be having wet dreams about having more rules to boss us about with.

Can we start hanging Labour MP's now?...

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