Children's websites and moderators.

[Casper_Fading]

How would it work with having international people? I know that international checks cost more...

[Mandimoo]

if it is done under an umbrella there maybe international branches that could deal with overseas requests.
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[Casper_Fading]

I'd be interested to find out how Harley woul ddeal with it!

[Dead Force]

The CRB checks only for criminal records etc. in this country.

[Casper_Fading]

I know that if you get a job here and need a police check and you've lived elsewhere in the world for any amount of time when you've been over 18 you need an international check... so i think it may be the same for this sort of thing as well

[JumpinJackFlash]

Even if it did apply I don't see how it would be enforced.

[Mrs Sam]

i guess it wouldnt hurt if we did all give harley a copy of any we have had done recently. i know i've had one pretty recently.

like others have said though i cant see how it could be enforced

[Zeitgeist]

Maybe it'd be possible if we were all in the UK / had worked there. Or something. But as it is?

Also - the law only mentions moderators. It might be worth mentioning we're not actually here to support and stuff, so to speak - what about other members of staff? The supporters? The FAAs?

And that's when it becomes really impossible ;)

[griddlebone]

On the website it says that CRBs dont apply to international people and that Harley would have to get a 'good behaviour record' and even then, apparently theyre not always accepted.

[~invisible~girl~]

The article says it's basically only going to be enforced if someone complains that there's a mod on the site that shouldn't be working with children or vulnerable adults, so I don't see that being an issue for RYL anyway.

I don't know for sure, but my guess is that the main purpose of the law is just that if they do something like a convicted sex offender working for a children's website that they'll have some legal recourse to stop it, rather than that they actually intend to actively enforce it. I see it like the signs on the playgrounds in a lot of places that say no one over a certain age is allowed unless they're with a child -- no one really cares about an 18-year-old girl using the swings when it's not crowded, but having that law allows them to take action if there's some middle-aged guy hanging out staring at little kids for hours, when it's obviously creepy but wouldn't otherwise be illegal.

And "mainly" is really vague to be in a law (and I looked at the actual text of the law, that really is what it says!). Certainly RYL isn't a "children's website" by any stretch of the imagination, and while a lot of the members are under 18, there are still a significant portion who are not, so is it "mainly" used by people under 18? Does "mainly" mean over half the members are under 18? Over 3/4? What exactly counts as "mainly"? Surely that would be grounds to contest it if it ever came up in court, which I assume it won't for RYL anyway, as I can't imagine any of the mods are barred from working with children, but for whatever website it eventually does come up for, I can't imagine that "mainly" is going to stand up as a legal definition anyway.

[Mandimoo]

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Originally Posted by Mrs Sam

i guess it wouldnt hurt if we did all give harley a copy of any we have had done recently. i know i've had one pretty recently.

like others have said though i cant see how it could be enforced

they're fairly useless though because you need a new one for every role.
also you have 2 different types of crb check, a simple one (for volunteers working with adults, etc) and a full one (someone who might work for a government office).

i applied to the passport office once and one of the questions on the security check was 'are you or anyone you know involved in any form of terrorist organization?'

who would seriously write 'yes' to that?