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Britain
Health and safety snoops to enter family homes
2009-11-17
Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents. New guidance drawn up at the request of the Department of Health urges councils and other public sector bodies to "collect data" on properties where children are thought to be at "greatest risk of unintentional injury".
When the nanny state grabs hold, it does so by grabbing the things it can grab from people who don't resist. You won't see the nanny-thugs try to ban the hajib -- the Muslims might kill them. So instead the nanny-thugs hassle you and me; we're too civilized to fight back.
Council staff will then be tasked with overseeing the installation of safety devices in homes, including smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, oven guards and window and door locks.

The draft guidance by a committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been criticised as intrusive and further evidence of the "creeping nanny state". Until now, councils have made only a limited number of home inspections to check on building work and in extreme cases where the state of a house is thought to pose a serious risk to public health.

Nice also recommends the creation of a new government database to allow GPs, midwives and other officials who visit homes to log health and safety concerns they spot.
"allow" means "mandate" in British English ...
The guidance aims to "encourage all practitioners who visit families and carers with children and young people aged under 15 to provide home safety advice and, where necessary, conduct a home risk assessment". It continues: "If possible, they should supply and install home safety equipment."
So bring your toolbox, Doctor, we have hand-rails to install!
The proposals have been put out to consultation and, if approved, will be implemented next year.

Matthew Elliott, of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "It is a huge intervention into family life which will be counter-productive.

"Good parents will feel the intrusion of the state in their homes and bad parents will now have someone else to blame if they don't bring up their children in a sensible, safe environment."

About 100,000 children are admitted to hospital each year for home injuries at a cost of £146m.
This is where a national health system goes, folks: everything is justified if one can say that it will cut health care spending.
Posted by:Beavis

#4  In most states you can shoot home invaders. In Iowa, you just have to make sure that the body falls inside the house.
Posted by: rwv   2009-11-17 22:59  

#3  ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > FOURTEEN YEAR HIGH: EVEN IN THE USA 49.0MILYUHN GO HUNGRY.

and

CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > USDA: NUMBER OF AMERICANS GOING HUNGRY INCREASES [up to 14.6% from 11.1% back in 2007; increased hunger rates for US Children since same].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-11-17 21:31  

#2  I don't think many Americans would stand for this.

the nanny-thugs hassle you and me; we're too civilized to fight back.

If anyone thinks I'm too "civilized" to fight back, they're either delusional or don't know me at all. Most of the people I associate with can become totally barbarian if pushed far enough. This would be way too far. Britain needs to regain its Pictish heritage.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2009-11-17 19:58  

#1  Ringworld was a fun book. "If the Patriarchy tried to force such a law on kzinti, we would exterminate the Patriarchy for its insolence."
Posted by: James   2009-11-17 16:07  

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