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December 10

Danish child protection policies

I've just been watching the Danish film Jagten, starring Mads Mikkelsen as a preschool teacher accused of sexually abusing one of the children in his care. Being involved with youth work myself I was intrigued to see the portrayal of interactions between children and adults, and the investigation into the alleged incident, which were substantially different to what I have been used to in the UK and Ireland. To further investigate child protection procedures in Denmark, I'd like to read a Danish organisation's Child Protection Policy. In the UK any organisation whose staff or volunteers have access to young people would have such a document in place, and an example can be seen here. Can someone provide me with an equivalent Danish document? Whilst I can read some Danish, I don't know enough to know which words to search for to bring one to light. For the same reason, if an English translation is available that would be fantastic, but if it's just in Danish that's fine. Thanks. - Cucumber Mike (talk) 00:15, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

This link http://www.hil.no/content/view/full/36613/language/nor-NO is not a guide but a course whose description translates roughly as "Investigation, reporting and initiatives in the child protection agency" - with emphasis on the agency's work process towards professionally based decisions, with an introduction to legal rules and methods. SkylonS (talk) 09:00, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

That's not Danish though, that's Norwegian. I am no expert in the field, but I am not quite sure that such elaborate independent policies are common in Denmark. However in 2005 a law was passed in Denmark that required people who worked with children to acquire a socalled "børneattest" ("children's certificate"). This basically means than anyone with prior convictions in child abuse cases is not eligible for such work. The Danish Sports Association has published a pamphlet (Danish only) regarding the prevention of sexual abuse of children in the world of sports, but I am not sure if that is what you are looking for. A random sampling of various local sports organisations seems to mainly refer to the children's certificate and that pamphlet (as in here and here on their page about child protection policies). The following ones have their own policies, it seems, with no mention of the children's certificate, but still much shorter than the English example given in the OP: Link and link (all Danish only). --Saddhiyama (talk) 10:02, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Sounds similar in scope to a CRB Disclosure in the UK. Astronaut (talk) 12:45, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Alfred Rawlinson's patent

I need to establish a link between the "Alfred Rawlinson... (of) Winwick Warren, Rugby, in the County of Warwick, England" shown in this patent, and Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet. Are they one and the same person? An intriguing preface by Admiral Sir Percy Scott says that "he gave up a soldier's life to let his mechanical knowledge make a fortune for him in the early days of motor-car racing"[1]. So did he get rich by inventing a new type of gear stick? Alansplodge (talk) 21:04, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

It seems likely that they are the same person, though I couldn't spot any definitive proof. Various searches show that he probably got rich by co-owning or managing a series of auto manufacturing companies. Looie496 (talk) 23:28, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

An Alfred Rawlinson of Winwick Warren appeared in court for a motoring offence in April 1899, and was then described as one of the greatest motor-car drivers in Europe. But I can't find a 1901 census return for Alfred Rawlinson in Warwickshire or in London; the future Sir Alfred seems to appear fairly consistently at the family home in Mayfair in other years. AlexTiefling (talk) 00:13, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Alex - is there a link for that? Alansplodge (talk) 09:47, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Sadly not - I'm a full subscriber to both the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) and Ancestry.com. Here's some of what I've turned up:

BNA: Western Daily Press, 13 May 1924: Colonel Alfred Rawlinson gets divorced. (This is Sir Alfred - the divorce date matches our article.) "In the Divorce Court yesterday, Colonel Alfred Rawlinson was granted a decree nisi with costs, because of the misconduct of his wife, known on the stage as Jean Aylwin, with Mr Hubert Bath, the musical composer." (A longer account of this case appeared in the North Devon Journal 2 days later; Col Rawlinson's address is given as Willesden Paddocks, Cricklewood.)

BNA: Gloucestershire Echo, 5 June 1934: Sir Alfred's death. "Dr. Edwin Smith, the Coroner, stated at the Battersea Coroner's Court to-day that he would not hold an inquest on Sir Alfred Rawlinson, because he was satisfied that death was due to natural causes. Sir Alfred died suddenly on Friday in his flat at Edgeley-road, Clapham."

BNA: Tamworth Herald, 7 July 1900: A motoring offence. "A case of considerable interest to motorists came before the Windsor magistrates on Monday, when Mr. Alfred Rawlinson, of London, was charged by a van driver with not stopping his motor at a signal from him." (Case dismissed.)

BNA: Western Gazette, 23 December 1932: Sir Alfred is given a 14-day suspended prison for failing to pay council rates on his home in Willesden.

BNA: Coventry Evening Telegraph, 27 March 1899: Alfred Rawlinson of Winwick Warren, near Rugby, up before magistrates at a Police Court in Wolverhampton on a dangerous (actually 'furious') driving charge. Described by his own lawyer as "one of the best motor-car drivers in Europe". Case dismissed.

BNA: Cornishman, 22 January 1931: Sir Alfred has a narrow escape near Cricklewood when his car bursts into flames.

BNA: Dundee Courier, 15 July 1910: "Mr Alfred Rawlinson" (no kinship or address mentioned) suffers a dislocated ankle and a broken shoulder when he crashes his Farnam biplane.

Ancestry: Various crossings of the Atlantic by liner (including the Lusitania) undertaken by a man born in 1867 who is presumably Sir Alfred.

Ancestry: On the very first page of the Royal Aero Club members' certificates, Sir Alfred is member #3, on 5 April 1910; a photograph is included.

Ancestry: 1911 Census: Sir Alfred, then a widower, lives at 12 Duke Street Mansions, Grosvenor Square, London, with his valet, Charles Peck.

Ancestry: 1901 Census (I found it!): Sir Alfred and his first wife, Margaret Kennard Rawlinson, live at 28 Wilton Crescent, London, with their 3 children and 6 servants.

Although there are a good dozen or so Alfred Rawlinsons in Britain at the time, I can't link any of them to Winwick Warren except through the patent (and attendant notices in the London Gazette, etc) and the 1899 news story. I'm confident that the aviator and the baronet are the same person. I'm less confident that the inventor and traffic-offenders are all the same as each other, and as the baronet, but I'd still say it's more likely than not. AlexTiefling (talk) 12:47, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

From the London Gazette, 26 May 1905: "NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership or Limited Partnership heretofore subsisting between and carried on by William Beilby Avery, of Oakley Court, near Windsor, in the county of Berks, Gentleman, and Alfred Rawlinson, of Winwick Warren, Rugby, in the county of Warwick, Gentleman, as Motor Car Manufacturers, at Windsor, under the style of " AVERY AND RAWLINSON," was determined and dissolved on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1905." This would appear to link the Winwick Warren Rawlinson to the Windsor motoring case, in which the defendant was 'of London'. This isn't conclusive, but strongly suggests to me that all three are the same person. AlexTiefling (talk) 13:25, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

As a matter of personal interest to me, I decided to look up Winwick (I appear to live not 15 miles from there and I've never heard of it), and it seems to be quite interested in its history if this website is anything to go by. No mention of "Winwick Warren" though. I wonder if contacting the village via the website would further your enquiries? --TammyMoet (talk) 12:55, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks one and all. There surely can't have been two famous racing drivers called Alfred Rawlinson at the same time. Alansplodge (talk) 13:14, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

No problem! I love this sort of stuff. I notice we have an article on Hubert Bath, the co-respondent in the Rawlinson-Aylwin divorce. How should we go about incorporating the newspaper evidence into their articles? AlexTiefling (talk) 13:34, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

...and although we have no Jean Aylwin article, I see that she's named as part of the debut casts of at least four different stage shows that we do have articles for. If I get time this evening, I might try putting such an article together. AlexTiefling (talk) 13:37, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

And now we do! (I wasn't sure how much to include from theatre reviews; I'm happy to help polish the article later.) AlexTiefling (talk) 14:40, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

The polishing has commenced.  :) -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 19:17, 12 December 2012 (UTC)