On 3 Oct 2008, at 13:12, Thomas Dalton wrote:
2008/10/3 Chris Wood hot20024@hotmail.com:
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