This email came in from one volunteer, and shows the insidious reality of vetting – and the potential rebellion against it: ‘A couple of years ago I agreed to a CRB check in order to be able to carry on helping out with my childrens (age 10) junior football club in our village (population about 850). More recently, I’ve been asked to submit to another one to be able to help out at their local Cubs. So far, I’ve simply ignored this and will continue to do so as a matter of principle. If I’m asked specifically to go through the check…

In Regulating Trust – Who Will be on the Vetting Database?, the Manifesto Club reported on draft government Guidance for the upcoming vetting database. Here, volunteers – who will be expected to follow the database rules – respond to the draft Guidance. If you would like to send in a response, email here Anne Fine, OBE, FRSL If there is a more shameful, idiotic, irrational or dispiriting document kicking around in government, I’d be astonished. This futile business has already turned Britain into an international laughing stock. It was hard to imagine proposals even more bereft of common sense than those already…