Maniac British Nanny State: Health and Safety Inspectors to Enter Homes; It’s for the Children
November 17th, 2009Via: Times Online:
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”.
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The draft guidance by a committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been criticised as intrusive and further evidence of the “creeping nanny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”.
Related: British Government Installing CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
This just sucks. All this wasteful prying into the lives of people who don’t need it, and all the time we have people dying in hospitals through lack of care, and the nurse who blows the whistle gets struck off for breaching patient privacy. Plus we have people up and down the country crying out for home help to look after seriously ill relatives at home, and nothing forthcoming from the government.
I wonder how long before one of these new child health and safety experts enters a home only to find the desperate conditions that some carers and their dependants face each day? I wonder what they’ll do. I bet it won’t be ‘help’.