{"id":2496,"date":"2007-10-17T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_scotland_adults_too_afraid_of_youth_work\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:49:01","slug":"in_scotland_adults_too_afraid_of_youth_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2496","title":{"rendered":"In Scotland Adults &#39;too afraid&#39; of youth work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adults are often too scared to work with young people for fear of being branded a paedophile, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>A survey by Scotland&#8217;s Commissioner for Children and Young People revealed that the fear of being accused of harming young people was the main deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Marshall&#8217;s study found a shortage of adults prepared to take work roles and volunteering posts.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,100 people took part in the detailed survey.<\/p>\n<p>Some 48% of adults surveyed said fear of being falsely accused of causing harm was a barrier to contact with children and young people.<\/p>\n<p>This same fear also made adults much less likely to help when they saw a young person in danger or distress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/7045544.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adults are often too scared to work with young people for fear of being branded a paedophile, according to a new report. A survey by Scotland&#8217;s Commissioner for Children and Young People revealed that the fear of being accused of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2496\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,101,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}