43000 people forced to move because of benefit cap

STing

diable wrote: »

Sperm donors don't need a licence either......

You appear to know a lot on the subject.

I assume you're a regular sperm recipient.

:cool:

CLAPTON

there will become a time (not far off) that nearly everyone will require a CRB check as most people can come into contact with children or vunerable adults

so the photocopier repair person entering a school or care home or sports facility etc will require a CBR check

so anyone that has a drunken driving conviction will become unemployable; I'm not sure that makes sense

brit1234

Cleaver wrote: »

Do you have any stats around the percentage of landlords that are criminals compared to other occupations Brit?

Y'know, I have no idea why I'm asking this. As a more important question, can anyone out there give me even a slight clue as to why I'm asking such a question that I, and everyone else, knows that Brit won't have an answer for?

Sorry been doing a heck of a lot of fitness training and extra days at work so I apologise if I am hardly around to answer your questions.

The first thing you have to define is what is a criminal? Harder than what it sounds. It could be any thing from some guy who got a caution as a kid for cannabis or the repeat bank robber.

What I do know is higher up drug dealers launder their cash into properties either as buying them or paying rent way in advance. I have no figures for it though.

ILW

Would you want someone with a burglary or even rape conviction to have the keys and legal right of access to your home?

mj12_2

ILW wrote: »

Would you want someone with a burglary or even rape conviction to have the keys and legal right of access to your home?

If you're uncomfortable with a private landlord use the council or a housing association, if someone owns a house they should be able to enter it with reasonable notice (ie not stopping your 'quiet enjoyment' of the property)... its their house, you are just living there.

The postman has legal right of access to deliver my mail, should they all be CRB checked too, hell, why not just tattoo 'Criminal' on the foreheads of everyone whose ever dropped litter, then we would all know and there would be no need to waste time and money on CRB checks.

How about apartment blocks - everyone with access to the commnual areas could be CRB cheeckd, along with everyone who lived there, just in case the chap down the corridor is a rapist everyone in the block can CRB check everyone else.

Cleaver

ILW wrote: »

Would you want someone with a burglary or even rape conviction to have the keys and legal right of access to your home?

No, of course not. But the other question is, do I want anyone who comes in to contact with anyone else as part of their work CRB checked? No, of course not.

CRB is there for people who work with kids or vulnerable adults and a couple of other specialised roles. There's no need for a landlord to be CRB checked as there are already laws and legislation around who can enter a rented home and how / when they can do it.

Percy1983

Cleaver wrote: »

CRB is there for people who work with kids or vulnerable adults and a couple of other specialised roles. There's no need for a landlord to be CRB checked as there are already laws and legislation around who can enter a rented home and how / when they can do it.

I do see a hole in this arguement.

On that same basis pedophile teachers are fine as the law says they shouldn't touch the children.

So of course a pedophile or rapist is fine having a key to your home because the law says they can't enter...

FTBFun

Percy1983 wrote: »

I do see a hole in this arguement.

On that same basis pedophile teachers are fine as the law says they shouldn't touch the children.

So of course a pedophile or rapist is fine having a key to your home because the law says they can't enter...

If anyone's that worried, it is perfectly legal to change the lock barrel on a rented property, assuming of course you replace the old one when you leave.

Cleaver

Cleaver wrote: »

CRB is there for people who work with kids or vulnerable adults and a couple of other specialised roles. There's no need for a landlord to be CRB checked as there are already laws and legislation around who can enter a rented home and how / when they can do it.

Percy1983 wrote: »

I do see a hole in this arguement.

On that same basis pedophile teachers are fine as the law says they shouldn't touch the children.

So of course a pedophile or rapist is fine having a key to your home because the law says they can't enter...

You've missed the point of my post. No, !!!!!phile teachers aren't okay in any way, shape or form, hence all teachers and indeed anyone working with children requiring, by law, to have an enhanced CRB check.

Graham_Devon

Why are people worried about landlords having to go through CRB checks? Don't understand the argument against really, as don't know why people think it shouldn't happen.

Not that I think the argument for them are that compelling, but didn't think there would be such hostility towards it?