Consenting adults....?

Two WPCs have been told that they were acting illegally in minding each other's children when their mothers were on duty.

There is no question of risk to the children, since presumably both women would have been checked by the CRB as a condition of their work No, their offence was to offer mutual help without telling the government (agency). They can presumably continue with the arrangement if they register with Ofsted, and presumably pay the relevant fee.

Neither woman paid the other, but they were deemed to have been rewarded by the arrangement.

This is worrying in itself. Families and neighbours do kindnesses for each other. Ought we to declare this on our annual tax returns? "I dug my neighbour's garden he painted my house, notional value £500 to each from each", so we would pay tax on our increased income.

Where will it end? We give apples to our neighbour. She gives us tomatoes, so we are "rewarded for giving the apples, she for giving the tomatoes. The mind cannot quickly conceive how many other implications there are to all this.

The object in registering with Ofsted, I suspect is not to raise some more income. It is part of the mania this government has for control.