Quite. I wouldn't want that family fostering: they don't have the space, they already have four young children, they can't understand that a foster child would need privacy, and they think that such things as police checks and disability training are a waste of time. Wouldn't it be fun if they turned out to be homophobic too ("good Christian family values" or whatever) and got a LGBT youngster to foster?
The assumption that all volunteers are lovely people is naive beyond belief. D, who's the assistant manager (i.e. one of only two salaried staff) at a charity bookshop, recently went through no end of hassle from the higher-ups because £50 vanished one day when he was running the shop. A variety of volunteers were in that day at various times. The next week, more money vanished. After that, the new volunteer who'd been there both times never showed up again and evaded all attempts at contact, so it was pretty definite it was him, but not before D had been grilled endlessly on exactly what had happened when he'd taken money to the bank and so forth. (The first time he was frantically triple-checking everything in case he'd made a mistake himself, not that he thought he had, mainly because he didn't want to think one of the volunteers was a thief.) I'm still a little shocked that the charity let it slide and didn't call in the police. And people are against police checks for volunteers?
As for disability training, try being disabled in today's world.
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Date: 2007-06-17 09:09 pm (UTC)The assumption that all volunteers are lovely people is naive beyond belief. D, who's the assistant manager (i.e. one of only two salaried staff) at a charity bookshop, recently went through no end of hassle from the higher-ups because £50 vanished one day when he was running the shop. A variety of volunteers were in that day at various times. The next week, more money vanished. After that, the new volunteer who'd been there both times never showed up again and evaded all attempts at contact, so it was pretty definite it was him, but not before D had been grilled endlessly on exactly what had happened when he'd taken money to the bank and so forth. (The first time he was frantically triple-checking everything in case he'd made a mistake himself, not that he thought he had, mainly because he didn't want to think one of the volunteers was a thief.) I'm still a little shocked that the charity let it slide and didn't call in the police. And people are against police checks for volunteers?
As for disability training, try being disabled in today's world.