On 3 Oct 2008, at 13:12, Thomas Dalton wrote:
2008/10/3 Chris Wood <hot20024(a)hotmail.com>om>:
Sorry I have been away from things very busy with
college work and
that and
missed out on what was going on. From my point of view the CRB
checks would
then have to be brought in if we had under 16's. Although like
wikipedia
where you can sign up at any age there is no physical contact with
the other
users unless there is wikimania or something and even then it is
tightly
organised. Just a thought anyway.
Someone is researching CRBs, hopefully they'll be able to clear this
up. I spoke to someone at the charity commission about it and the
physical contact requirements only apply if you are alone with
children, that should never be the case at wikimania or AGMs, they are
pretty public events. (Also, Wikimania is a WMF event, so I don't
think WM UK would be liable for any of it.)
In terms of membership, then no contact is needed - just handling of
addresses etc. I would ditto what Thomas says regarding Wikimania's
and AGM's: they're more public events, so CRB checks of directors
shouldn't be needed (I fail to see why every adult in the room
wouldn't need to be checked otherwise).
Mike