That's just the way it is, DA.
I am a trustee of a small charity that deals with people in the 'vulnerable' group. We have to check all of our (four) staff and (twenty) volunteers. It costs over £40 per head, so we are heading for a thousand pound bill.
But that is what the tabloids wanted, and the Government cannot resist them for fear of condoning heaven knows what.
Unfair? Yes. Pointless? Probably. Avoidable? No.