WOW - Big brother going overboard with parents in the UK!

According to this telegraph article British parents are prohibited from attending their kids school plays, parties or other activities if they are not vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau (CBR)

The system of vetting adults who work with children was introduced in 2002 in the aftermath of the horrific abduction and murder of two schoolgirls in Soham. But most parents still don't realise that it has since expanded arbitrarily and can encompass virtually any adult who wishes to come in to contact with children.

So if you are not licensed by the CRB, don't be surprised if you are discouraged from attending your child's activities. What astonished Alka was that so many parents have come to accept such intrusive vetting as a fact of life.
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She says that many parents agreed that the vetting of parents at a school disco was unnecessary, while some described it as "just one of those daft excessive things" - yet they were prepared to tolerate it. One nursery worker informed me that she is quitting her chosen vocation because "I cannot be myself in this job".

"I no longer feel comfortable about acting on my gut feelings and cuddling and reassuring a distressed infant," she says. As far as she was concerned, if she could no longer cuddle the children in her charge and was forced to minimise physical contact with them, then her job had become "weird".

So, now parents - the primary guardian of their kids - are notbasically not trusted anymore to take care or guard their kids. Of course this bill has some good sides, trying to keep kids from being kidnapped and worse, but... are kids really in danger at school activities (while parents attend?) In my logic, a kid whose parents are not vetted and are therefore prohibited from those activities runs higher risks to being obducted (b/c at all this chaos at class activities the teacher can't look after all of the kids running and bustling around)

A couple of years I worked voluntarily in a nursing home in Germany and experienced a new bill being introduced in Germany making caring and nursing in nursing homes much more restricted. The same side effects came up... While trying to make a good job and taking good care of old people, nurses had to cross boundaries which if they would come out would get them sentenced.

Is this institutionalization of such jobs and its grasp into private realms really necessary to protect?? Or are there other ways?? Teachers, nurses or kindergarten teacher are already the number one social group being affected by burn out syndrom - if now they permanently have to worry about prosecution, will they keep coming to work?