Uk law will NOT allow anybody work with kids in UK unless they have CRB checks done.
Any kids in the flight deck? Wood was CRC checked to the required level for his job. It's not BA's responsibility to police his social activities.
Fact is BA knew a member of its staff who was arrested and charged previously in relation to a child abuse allegation was present with other members of staff on a reported event.
He wasn't charged. He wasn't proven guilty. He wasn't convicted. Despite your self-righteousness you can't start sanctioning people who haven't commited any offence, nor could BA prevent him doing whatever the hell he liked at an African orphanage in his own time.
BA has its own media watch team that would have had details of who was involved in 2002. BA did not disassociate itself with 2002 activity it appears.
Where does it say BA associated itself with the 2002 activity? BA crewmembers volunteered but you appear to be of the view that the simple act of a large number of employees volunteering their time is somehow equivalent to corporate association. Even if BA was associated, why would anyone in the media team know of, or need to know, of Woods history? There's a certain thing called Data Protection and CRB checks are not passed willy-nilly around the company just out of idle curiousity. Nor could BA require an enhanced check of Woods, he could just refuse. It's not needed for his job and it wouldn't stop him going to Africa.
BA staff who volunteer to help in UK for school activities (and there are many thousands of BA staff doing this
) have to obtain CRB checks in advance but somehow requiring members of its staff to have the checks done when they volunteering overseas would stop the volunteering ? Doubt it very much.
Yes but
BA doesn't require them to obtain CRB checks. The organisations they volunteer with require those checks. You can't require a UK employer to police the off-duty overseas voluntary work of it's employees.
Frankly the BA staff I have spoken to in the last week would welcome checks because it is their names that is getting tarnished and they want scumbags like this weeded out.
They are very welcome to get all the checks they need, but the reality is that if someone wants to volunteer overseas in their own time overseas there's nothing their employer can do about it. I'll bet there are plenty of institutions in Africa that have never seen anyone from BA apart from Wood and are probbly entirely unknown to BA. Are BA to blame for any abuse there?