Since a second person in our church faced criminal charges of paedophilia, the church decided to get serious about taking steps to ensure the safety of children in the congregation (N.B. There is no-one currently in the church that are victims of these two - both the "gentlemen" in question did what they did decades ago)
Our boys go to the church youth group on a Friday night and can walk there (20-25mins) but usually need a lift back (it's dark) and especially if the group is going somewhere, like to ten pin bowling (we don't drive). One Friday, the youngest (12) went on his own - he was told to ring us when he got there and make sure that he asked around among the group leaders to ensure he got a lift home. he rang us when he got there, and we assumed everything would be fine from then on.
Our first whiff of the new "child protection policy" was when we received a phone call from the youngest - he was calling from an older (15 year old) friend's place. Apparently at the end of the night when he was supposed to get a lift home, the leaders said they couldn't take him because of the new child protection policy, which required at least two adults to be in a car transporting children/youth anywhere. So basically, in the name of child protection, they were going to shut up the church hall and let a child find his own way home through the dark, on a twenty five minute walk at 9:30pm on a Friday night. Had we been called, one of us could have walked up to the church and met our son to escort him safely home on foot, but no such call came.
Fortunately, our son's 15 year old friend was gifted with more brains and compassion than these 20-something youth leaders, so he gave our son a lift on the handle-bars of his bicycle to his own place, a further 5-10 mins walk away, where he called us and told us he'd be waiting for the friend's mum (a friend of my wife's) to come home and give him a lift back. She was back soon after and did give him the lift back.
The following Sunday at night church, the pastor made reference to the incident, making fun of it and suggesting that it was a triumph of the new policy - sort of "See how dilligent we are in enforcing the new policy. My wife went ballistic, and at the first oppportunity, she bailed the pastor up and gave him both barrels, asking "What kind of a 'child protection' policy leaves a child stranded in the dark, late on a Friday night, 25 mins walk from home??"
To me it's a classic case of legalism in the church - where a principle spawns rules, and the enforcement of the rules becomes more important than the principle and (by extension) the people that the rules are supposed to protect. In this case it was the "two adults in the car" rule that was enforced at the sacrifice of the actual safety of a child in their protection.
Those of us on this board are well familiar with a similar sacrifice of principle for rules - the infamous "two witnesses" rule that, instead of being used as an evidence gathering tool as was intended in Biblical times, has been applied to the letter so as to absolve those in power from needing to get involved in a very sticky and problematic area.