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by wurzel
Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:30 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Who Knew What?
Replies: 221
Views: 68798

Re: Who Knew What?

Why wouldn’t there be? Because of all the bad publicity While these scandals have certainly revived this forum, I don't really think they have made much of a splash with the public at large. For a start none of them occurred under the present leadership. I think Ampleforth and Downside are far more...
by wurzel
Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:20 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Who Knew What?
Replies: 221
Views: 68798

Re: Who Knew What?

i dont remember how true this now is due to changes in structure etc but I remember being told whilst there that the reason for the sale of Hertford was that although the school has loads of assets (this was around the time it was listed as the richest school in Britain) it needed liquid cash to pay...
by wurzel
Sun Aug 26, 2018 12:48 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Data Protection Act
Replies: 11
Views: 4579

Re: Data Protection Act

I was in the bank on Friday where someone was trying to open an account for their wife (both Poles) he had a plethora of ID but the bank clerk was refusing to open it as his utility bill was a print off of a statement of account and not a posted copy - he was trying to explain it was an account mana...
by wurzel
Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:05 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Data Protection Act
Replies: 11
Views: 4579

Re: Data Protection Act

you should try running a sports team where you have some players under 18, some over, some who want direct communication, some who want via parent and some with parents living apart who both want copies of everything. Where the team covers 3 academic years and what matters is they be U18 at midnight...
by wurzel
Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:37 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Did anyone know?
Replies: 159
Views: 85296

Re: Did anyone know?

Quote from The Guardian (I know, sorry, don't like quoting that!): The ban on corporal punishment came into force in 1986 in British state schools (private schools took a while longer: until 1998 in England and Wales, 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in Northern Ireland). Source I can clearly recall Ken G...
by wurzel
Tue Aug 21, 2018 2:22 pm
Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
Topic: Help the newbie!
Replies: 19
Views: 15240

Re: Help the newbie!

I am not a current parent but I do manage a U18 girls rugby team and play myself, all rugby boots have to have correct IRB aproved studs (which are usually metal) and most of those for sale in the UK do meet those criteria other than some boots in Decathlon some refs can be sniffy about. I would sug...
by wurzel
Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:32 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: CH and flu
Replies: 33
Views: 16898

Re: CH and flu

in the mid 80's we were all used as a human trial for a drug called Amantadine (with parents permission) I cant remember if it was a double blind trial with some getting placebos (it was a a small red tablet) or just we all got the drug - i do remember a graph of admission to the infirmary for flu o...
by wurzel
Sun Aug 19, 2018 12:59 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236116

Re: Politics

Totally agree. When I left home in the 1960s in an era when private rents were controlled, my little flat in north London (on the Northern line into the West End) was one fifth of my salary. Now it might well be half. Someone had a letter in the Guardian the other day saying just this, that we need...
by wurzel
Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:42 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Letter to the Head Master
Replies: 194
Views: 90263

Re: Letter to the Head Master

I meant the common practice now - I have no idea what was common practice in 84
by wurzel
Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:14 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Letter to the Head Master
Replies: 194
Views: 90263

Re: Letter to the Head Master

The usual method is school is the accused teacher is placed on suspension on full standard pay until the investigation is complete with no contact with vulnerable people - if only because if they are found not guilty then no compensation for lost earnings is needed. From Safeguarding courses I have ...
by wurzel
Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:04 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Roger Martin
Replies: 199
Views: 75517

Re: Roger Martin

ok - in that evidence of the totally separate management of the 2 organisations i can see why ex leaders (some of whom left the school under a cloud) could still end up on a scout camp during the holidays and outside the school grounds without any control or input from the school
by wurzel
Sat Aug 18, 2018 2:09 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Roger Martin
Replies: 199
Views: 75517

Re: Roger Martin

Question I have no idea on the answer to What control over CH Scout pack did CH School/foundation have ? I know the leaders were teachers and it was based in the scout hut by the manual/CDT school but in terms of governance risk assessments etc was there any cross over or was it a totally separate b...
by wurzel
Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:21 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: newspaper article re Peter Webb's departure from CH
Replies: 7
Views: 3804

Re: newspaper article re Peter Webb's departure from CH

We all got the standard newspaper deliveries (despite rumours to the contrary) so there was definitely a copy in LHB because otherwise i would not have read it and we were all warned to beware of reporters ringing to try and get extra details (in those days we had just had the understairs phone fitt...
by wurzel
Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:48 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Expelled
Replies: 159
Views: 45710

Re: Expelled

Yes I've come to the same conclusion JR. Listening to my kids and their friends way back when (and even allowing for a bit of bragging) I got the impression that 14 seemed to be a typical age for some kind of serious sexual involvement. Fascinating how different societies see these things. In our d...
by wurzel
Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236116

Re: Politics

More useful form a world competitive economy point of view would be a housing price crash or at least slow decline rather than continual rapid rise. It would hurt a lot of people (largely the older ones who own property and have pensions paid from investments in property) but would leave us better p...