by Alan M » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:15 am
If as a individual you fail to act according to the law and as a result there is an event or action that injures someone or allows them to be injured or hurt then I suppose if it is a health and safety matter you can be imprisoned or fined. Within the child protection sphere you could find yourself implicated in a long-running investigation that would be time consuming and difficult.
But Marco, yes you may be missing the point - the various regulations seem somewhat difficult but I am afraid that there are many seemingly innocent and harmless cases where adults have been found either very careless or downright evil and as a result children have been hurt or damaged, hence the need to regulate against such possibilities, albeit at some pains and inconvenience to well meaning people such as yourself.
My main observation from various cases that I have been involved with is that when you consider, for example the death, injury or damage to a child, it could almost always have been prevented by greater care or better systems put in place by adults.
However, given what you have described it is probably not a problem but it is wise to check which is the purpose of this after all.