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prevented from taking her own son to school because she hadn’t been screened for a criminal record.

I believe in today’s loony tune world kids really do need a closer eye kept on them.  But isn’t this taking big brother a bit far?

This story is a bit old I grant ya.  About 11 days. But that does not make it any less bizarre or interesting.

Mother prevented from taking own son to school because of criminal record checks
A woman was prevented from taking her own son to school because she hadn’t been screened for a criminal record.


By Caroline Gammell
Last Updated: 10:30PM BST 18 Jul 2008

Jayne Jones had been escorting 14-year-old severely epileptic Alex each day by taxi, taking specialist equipment with her in case he had a fit.

But the mother-of-two was told she would not be allowed to continue doing so until her details had been run through a Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) check.

The case came to light only days after it emerged that hundreds of innocent people were branded criminals by the CRB, which was set up to vet people working with children.

Figures seen by The Daily Telegraph showed that in the year to February 2008, 680 people were issued with incorrect information on their background checks by the CRB.

Last week a woman who was wrongly labelled a violent alcoholic and drug addict by the CRB was told she would have to allow police to take her fingerprints if she wanted to clear her name.

Amanda Hodgson, 36, a law-abiding mother-of-three, learned of her “criminal past’’ when applying for a post as a welfare assistant at her local primary school.

She was told she had a criminal record stretching back 18 years, including three convictions for assaulting police officers, and the only way to clear her name was to get her fingerprints checked against every unsolved crime in the country.

Mrs Jones, from Aberfan in south Wales, said stopping her taking her son - who has cerebral palsy - to school was “political correctness gone mad”.

“It’s crazy that I have to be CRB checked before I can ride in a taxi with my own son,” she said.

“I have to be checked to go in a taxi with him, but if I was able to drive him myself they wouldn’t care and even offered to pay me expenses.

“The taxi company is great and they carry Alex’s medication but they won’t use it and they wouldn’t know how to put him in the recovery position if needs be.”

Alex, who takes a combination of 32 anti-convulsant tablets a day, is currently travelling to his special needs school five miles away in Merthyr Tydfil with no one trained to cope if he has an attack.

He has been fitted with the Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) therapy system under the skin, which works like a pacemaker to help control electrical signals which can malfunction and cause him to seize.

But his parents are the only ones trained to use and understand the therapy.

His 42-year-old father Malcolm has a full-time job and Mrs Jones is the boy’s full-time carer.

A spokesman from Merthyr Tydfil Council said: “The CRB checking is a requirement of our transport provisions in relation to adults travelling on home-to-school transport in the capacity of an escort.

“This is a standard requirement and has been for several years.

(you just know the following has been written by lawyers. Wanna take a stab at how far this thinking can be carried?)

“Any adult acting as an escort will, in the public gaze, be viewed as acting with the full acquiescence of the council and hence with its implied authority.

“For the protection of the council and all vulnerable persons in its care it’s essential all those endowed with an authority, implicit or explicit, should meet the security requirements within the transport contract provisions.”

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