Carers and nannies should be vetted by their companies

A VIDEO CLIP showing a woman beating a child a dozen times within a minute in an elevator after the doors closed has gone viral. The incident was confirmed to have happened in a residential community in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, and the local police said they have detained the suspect, who was the child's nanny. Hebnews.cn comments:

What happened in Zhengzhou is just the latest in a recent series of incidents involving nannies.

One thing that has proved effective in developed countries is building an entrance threshold for the profession of home care helpers. In simple words, a "wall" must be built so that nannies and home care helpers with bad records will be kept outside, and the children and senior citizens who need care can stay safe inside.

The past several years have seen the mushrooming of home care service providers. The industry has developed so fast that many companies fail to check job applicants' past records or make an evaluation of their performance. As a result, many people who are not suitable have been employed as carers.
It is necessary to revise the law and give home care companies the responsibility of checking the records of nurse job applicants, so as to prevent those unfit for the job from entering the profession. Those with criminal records, unstable characters, as well as mental health problem should all be forbidden from becoming carers.

And in case such violence happens in the future, the home care companies that recruit nannies and home care helpers and introduce them to employers should be punished for failing in their responsibility of record checking. Only with the wall being solidly built could we prevent violence against children and senior citizens from happening again.