{"id":3571,"date":"2009-10-29T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2009-10-29T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:41:46","slug":"another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/29\/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Another nail in the coffin of common sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Council bans parents from play areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Score one for Britain in its contest with the United States to create the stupidest fear-based society. The Watford Borough Council took the lead by banning parents from supervising their own kids in public playgrounds, &#8220;because they have not undergone criminal record checks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only adults allowed to monitor the kids are idiocracy-vetted &#8220;play rangers.&#8221; The children&#8217;s parents must &#8220;watch from outside a perimeter fence.&#8221; A council notice to parents explains that: &#8220;Safeguarding the children and young people who use the site is one of our top priorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to Ofsted regulations we have a responsibility to ensure that every authorised adult who enters our site is properly vetted and given a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check by Watford Borough Council.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Council Mayor Dorothy Thornhill argued they are merely enforcing government policy at the play areas, in Vicarage Road and Leggatts Way. She said: &#8220;Sadly, in today&#8217;s climate, you can&#8217;t have adults walking around unchecked in a children&#8217;s playground and the adventure playground is not a meeting place for adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council bans parents from play areas Score one for Britain in its contest with the United States to create the stupidest fear-based society. The Watford Borough Council took the lead by banning parents from supervising their own kids in public playgrounds, &#8220;because they have not undergone criminal record checks.&#8221; The only adults allowed to monitor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/29\/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-common-sense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Another nail in the coffin of common sense&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,49],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-news-from-the-stupid","tag-the-british-way"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-VB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}