In response to this, several clubs have set up designated areas for these scouts when they attend matches. Sometimes it is a small box area, clear to all and is at times monitored by security. For scouts it is at times embarassing and degrading to be in these areas and the element of security at times can only reinforce this feeling of being - put in the animal pen.
Clubs have taken advantage of this new ruling to indeed make scouts feel this way, almost as a way of putting scouts off attending. The main benefit to these clubs is that the boxed area means they can make sure these scouts aren't talking to parents of players, however the negative to the scouts is this degrading feel they experience that they are put in a corner, on show to everyone.
My concern in football is always this -- the more it regulates and allows such practices to go on, in ways that would never attract or sustain the best quality people in any walk of professional life, will only attract people, in this case Scouts, who would be willing to put up with such restrictive, sometimes embarrassing environments. Those who are professional scouts will either eventually quit because they are fed up feeling like they need to have security around them when they watch games or they will find ways around the system to integrate as a normal human being to watch football matches, whether this includes being able to talk to parents or not. The problem is the more you encourage humans to find routes around laws and regulations to feel more 'normal', the more you are encouraging them down a path of getting used to getting round regulations.
At the same time, they may end up forcing out some of the most talented and professional scouts out of OUR game.