http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/article/1281/
Jennie Bristow
A recent conference in London highlighted the dangers of the government’s insidious monitoring of our children’s lives. How have we reached such a state of institutionalised suspicion that a respected vicar can be obliged to resign as a school governor for kissing a 10-year-old girl on the forehead in class? That’s what happened in Britain recently (see You must remember this..., by Josie Appleton). A recent London conference on child protection offered a rare chance to put such absurd events in some wider critical perspective. ‘Who is bringing children up? Are parents effectively nannies for the state’s children or are children born to families and the state just helps families when they ask for it?’ (1). The answer, as they say, is in the question."
