Re: CRB checks for Museums

The subject of Child Protection Policies came up at a Fund Raising training event I have been on at City University.
It seems Lambeth expects organisations dealing with children to have them, and a representative from the 'Big Lottery Fund'  also suggested she would expect anyone applying for Awards for All for a children's project would expect an organisation to have a Child Protection Policy.
 
However, we also discussed projects where school children engage with senior citizens and no one would suggest all the old folk should be CRB'd before being allowed to talk to kids.
 
So, I would hope the Museum community can be sensible about it.  From our point of view - unless I hear that CRB's are de rigour for all staff and volunteers in Museums -  I think we are going to write a Child Protection Policy - probably as outlined in my previous post, and so establish policies that staff and volunteers never put themselves in a situation where they are alone with unsupervised children. 
 
 
 

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