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Journalist request: What are the main issues faced for liveaboard parents bringing up children on boats?


Debbie Luxon

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Except of course that CRT like BW before them do not have a right in law to set distances because the act which allows CCing was designed to allow boaters who did not need a permanent mooring to boat without the need for one. At the time no one thought that people would buy boats as houses and bring up children on them. Even when canal boats were used to carry commercial goods there were schools for boat people which did not require them to have a permanent mooring. Last year I met a man in the Netherlands who was born on a commercial boat and he was sent to a boarding school as his parents carried out their business, that is still the case today.

It would make sense for CRT to talk to the government and attempt to make sensible changes to the 1995 act to deal with the liveaboard issues.

 

Ken

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20 hours ago, KenK said:

Except of course that CRT like BW before them do not have a right in law to set distances because the act which allows CCing was designed to allow boaters who did not need a permanent mooring to boat without the need for one. At the time no one thought that people would buy boats as houses and bring up children on them. Even when canal boats were used to carry commercial goods there were schools for boat people which did not require them to have a permanent mooring. Last year I met a man in the Netherlands who was born on a commercial boat and he was sent to a boarding school as his parents carried out their business, that is still the case today.

It would make sense for CRT to talk to the government and attempt to make sensible changes to the 1995 act to deal with the liveaboard issues.

 

Ken

But CaRT do have a right to 'be satisfied that the boater is making a bona fide journey'. Explaining what might, in some circumstances, satisfy them is entirely legit.

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