Report Men in Nursery

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by: michaeld

Ok, I've just read through all the posts on this subject and I think they are really revealing. Especially those from wellinever. I'm really glad she voiced her opiions as this is a real issue within our society. The truth of the matter is that numbers of convicted sexual offenders is not representative of the risk that men present in a childcare setting. Cases of female sexual abuse on children are only recently being uncovered but it does happen. The point we need to see is that these cases are a tiny minority of people of both sexes. Obviously this means we need to be stringent in our checks (which I have to say we are not at the momment as people still slip through the net) but more importantly all childcare workers need to be open to the possibility of reporting abuse within the nursery when ever and who ever is involved. This is our best chance of truely safeguarding children. However if we start discouraging or excluding men from the caring environment, the damage we are doing to the children, by restricting their opportunities is far greater than I think we acknowledge. If we are to bring about change in society we have to start with the children, and that is the wonderful thing about this work. If they do not see men as caring trustworthy individuals how can we ever expect them to form these relationships with men in the future. The implications are far reaching and I think it is time we saw beyond the media hype around peadophilia and started to except men (such as the ones on this site) as individuals. My respect goes out to Bensinger, Les Abel, jrmassey_7, smoore, joshuajones, Mark W, rbyoung, FunkyMonkey, johnnygee, nannynick, philnneb, johnr and Pirbright.

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