On the 25th of August 2008, Clydeside Television journalist and producer Matt Quinn accessed the website of the Care Commission; the agency in Scotland charged with ensuring that the people who provide care to vulnerable people are fit to do so.

Using the public search facility on the Care Commission website Matt Quinn was able to confirm that a man who has a criminal conviction for violrntly assaulting another man so seriously he has been left scarred for life is registered as a childminder.

This is despite Clydeside Television making the Care Commission specifically aware of that person’s record of violence as far back as April 2008.