One out, one in.

Stupid rule kicked out via the front door: Child abuse vetting scheme cancelled as 'draconian'. The original vetting plans covered one in four of the adult population. Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that registration, due to begin next month, has been put on hold. There will be a review of the entire vetting and barring scheme, with a scaling back to "common-sense levels"... The government says the vetting scheme would have been "disproportionate and overly burdensome"...*

Ah... but look what's trying to sneak in via the back door: Clearer and tougher rules are needed to help protect people visting children's farms, experts say. The recommendations were made by an investigation into the biggest ever farm E. coli outbreak. More than 90 people were struck down by the potentially fatal 0157 strain of the bug at Surrey's Godstone Farm last year... The assessment of risk by the farm was inadequate as it primarily relied on visitors washing their hands**, the inquiry said...

* I trust that the ContactPoint database will be scrapped as well, it's not entirely clear.

** How about putting up a couple of big signs saying "Now wash your hands"? Job done. And while this strain may well be 'potentially fatal', none of those 'more than 90 people' appear to have died.