[SCA-AE] ANNOUNCE: Background checks for youth.

[Ruth Morrisson]

Greetings from Myfanwy!
And what about demos?  Very often there are demos for schools that are  
through the day.
Or is this only SCA kids that the BoD is concerned with?
On Wednesday, April 11, 2007, at 09:22  PM, Thomas Ireland-Delfs wrote:

> So. Now the question must be raised as to whether every autocrat of n
> event having youth activities will need to have a background check and
> how long these will take.  Seems to me that the BoD is about to open up
> a bureaucratic can of worms.
>
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>> From the Society SeneschaL:
>
> Background checks for youth.
>
> Please release the following information to your Local and Kingdom
> officers:
>
> In response to repeated occurences of the SCA having to deal with abuse
> of
> minors by SCA participants, risk to our membership from such  
> predatorial
> behavior, and legal liabilities if we fail to execute proper due
> diligence, the SCA will be implementing a background check program to
> minimize risk of harm to our people and the organization. This program
> will revolve around conducting--via a properly licensed
> vendor--background
> checks on all persons wishing to serve in a leadership or supervisory
> position where minors are expected to be taking direction from--or be  
> in
> the direct control of adults who are not their parent or legal  
> guardian.
>
> An example of officials who must receive the background check are:
> Youth
> activities officers at all levels, Adults acting as youth marshals for
> any
> martial activity, persons organizing/in charge of youth activities for
> an
> event.
>
> These checks will return a pass/fail status.  A pass status will cause
> the
> corporate office to issue a card good for two years that must be
> presented
> in order to be accepted as an official as described above.
>
> It is expected that this process will be streamlined and simplified as
> much as possible without invalidating the value of the background  
> checks
> themselves.  The cost of the checks will be billed back to the Kingdoms
> whose programs these volunteers are supporting.
>
> It is worth noting that these measures are less stringent than those
> being
> used today by the Boy Scouts of America.
>
> Further details, to include the actual process and an implement-by date
> will accompany the implementing guidelines to be issued after the April
> Board Meeting.
>
>
>
> Aaron Faheud Swiftrunner of the Stone Keep OL OP
> c/o George L. Reed
>
> Society Seneschal and Vice President of Operations
> SCA, Inc.
>
>
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Ruth Morrisson
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