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| 5/21 Who Is Watching and Caring for Your Kids This Summer, Do You Know? Top Questions to Ask To Keep Your Kids Safe Before Summer! |
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Be a safe and proactive parent this summer, keeping your kids secure with these top questions to ask before you drop your kids off. Remember the old adages “knowledge is power” and “arm yourself with knowledge”.
Submitted by: Joshua Howard 214-331-2551 www.fullidentity.com
Summer is here and for those of us with kids that means finding events and activities to challenge, pre-occupy, care for, and entertain with summer camps, vbs, program, sports leagues, summer clubs, daycare/babysitters/nannies, or classes. Before you do though, there are lessons for us parents to be learned from the news events that seem to be popping up all too often, of predators and people seeking to exploit children.
It is good for parents, and organizations that work with children, to understand that often times people with past serious convictions and offenses try to find circumstances and opportunities at places where they can come in as a new person, staff or volunteer, where nobody knows them, sneaking through the cracks because there is no screening process with background checks or else false information is given. These places of employment include and range from schools, churches, gyms, daycares, camps, non-profits, care givers, etc.; places where they have access to children. My caution and purpose for writing this article is to make all of us aware and mindful of these issues so that we can minimize even the remotest possibility of something like this happening to our children.
A report released last month from a leading background check company only confirms the validity of this scary truth. On the company’s screenings of potential volunteers or employees for Non-Profits for the last 5 years, 22% had serious convictions. And that is just the people who went through the process knowing that they would be screened, there may have been more that didn’t proceed further because of the background check screening process. 91,607 of those 22% had drug offense convictions. More than 10,000 had been convicted of sex-related offenses, more than 1,000 were on a sex-offender registry, and more than 600 were convicted of kidnapping!
Given this report, you may be asking what you can do about it or how you can know for certain whether the place you are dropping your children off to is safe and free from this type of employee or volunteer. The first thing you can do as the parent is ask to speak to the manager, supervisor, or director. Be sure to ask specific questions regarding their screening process to meet your satisfaction for your kids’ safety.
Questions to ask!
• Do you screen your volunteers and employees? Are background checks a part of that employment screening process?
• Are they performed on ALL volunteers and employees? If not, who is not included?
• Do you perform the background checks before or after the hire date?
• What type of checks do you perform, what is included?
• What offenses and information on the report are acceptable and what type disqualifies a person from volunteering or working here?
• Do you re-check to see if there are any new offenses every so often?
If they do not currently screen volunteers and employees by running background checks, maybe you can be the one to spur them on towards that end and begin a system to check potential candidates and securing our children’s safety!
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| Article Date: 5/21/2012 |
| Source: www.fullidentity.com |
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