28 ¾: How Constant Age Checks are Infantilising Adults

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With the coalition government planning tougher penalties for under-age serving, our new report finds that 'Think 25' policies are already penalising thousands of innocent adults.

28 ¾: How Constant Age Checks Are Infantilising Adults, by Dolan Cummings, finds that adults in their late 20s and 30s are being hassled by constant ID checks – and that the new rules will make this problem worse. The report is based on our survey of people's ID check experiences, and argues for the abolition of 'Think 25' policies and other over-cautious age-check rules.

Volunteering Made Difficult: How the child protection bureaucracy is obstructing volunteers

The Case Against Vetting logoThe Manifesto Club has published the first in-depth study showing the damaging effect of child protection policies on the voluntary sector.

The report, Volunteering Made Difficult, includes dozens of testimonies from volunteers; and also unpacks statistics released to the Manifesto Club under the Freedom of Information Act, which show that:
- over 4 million volunteers have been CRB checked since 2002;
- volunteer CRB checks are currently running at over 700,000 a year;
- under current plans, 2 million volunteers would be forced to register on the Independent Safeguarding Authority’s vetting database.

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Have you been prevented from photographing children?

logo Along with terrorism, child protection is one of the main justifications for the restriction of citizen photography today.

As a result, children are growing up without photos of their football matches or school events; photographers are unable to take spontaneous snaps of kids playing in the streets.

We are documenting this worrying phenomenon. Have you been told you can’t photograph your kids in a park? Do you have trouble covering kids’ events for a local paper? Does your sports club require registration for people to take photos?



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