Church accused over Criminal Records checks for choir members

Church accused over Criminal Records checks for choir members

The Church of England’s Guildford Diocese has been accused of being too politically correct after calling for all choir members across the diocese to complete a Criminal Records Bureau check.

One elderly choir member is refusing to return his form out of principle and might even leave the Church of England in protest. However, a spokesman for the diocese said that they are working to handle his case while remaining within guidelines.

Although the man in question, Mr Harding, 82, has no criminal convictions, his family says that he does not wish his details to be held by someone other than the police. Mr Harding has attended the choir at St Peter’s, Walton-on-the-Hill, for more than 40 years and was advised that all choir members had to complete a CRB check because children were also members of the choir.
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Note: This is an excellent example of how the anti-abuse people in the UK have blown the whole issue of child abuse and neglect out of proportion. If not for their lack of insight into child abuse itself, the Baby P fuck-up never would have happened and an 82 year old man would not have to under-go a criminal background check just to be able to sing in his Church Choir.

Personally I thought we had it bad over here.

This is beyond political correctness gone wild! This is more like Big Brother or the New World Order conspiracy theories becoming real. Either that or there is a full bloom epidemic of Anal-Retentive Disorder in the UK.

(nothing personal, just stating an observation)