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CRB checks routinely carried out on 13 and 14-year-olds
Daily Telegraph, 14 December 2009
Criminal record checks are routinely being carried out on 13 and 14-year-old children, figures revealed today.
Nine million face paedophile checks despite Ed Balls U-turn
Daily Telegraph, 14 December 2009
Nine million people who have regular contact with children will still face anti-paedophile checks despite a u-turn by Ed Balls.
Simon Carr: Put carers in high-visibility jackets
Independent, 14 December 2009
Comfortably off, middle-class intellectuals have a charter to abuse.
Still absurd, insulting and authoritarian
spiked, 14 December 2009
Two key campaigners against Britain’s vetting database argue that Ed Balls’ ‘u-turn’ isn’t nearly enough: the vetting regime must be dismantled. By Josie Appleton and James Panton.
Government U-turn over parental vetting plans
Sunday Times, 13 December 2009
Parents who are hosts to children on foreign exchange visits will not have to be screened for paedophile tendencies.
King’s College school gets chorus of criticism
The Sunday Times , 13 December 2009
The school in Cambridge that educates choristers in the world-famous King’s College choir has been ordered by the government to introduce urgent reforms after allowing a teacher into the classroom without an up-to-date Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check.
Groups hail vetting rules changes
BBC , 13 December 2009
A review by the Independent Safeguarding Authority was ordered after there was an outcry that volunteers were being deterred from working with children because of the VBS requirements.
Vetting rules climbdown after public backlash
Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2009
The Government scheme to vet up to 11 million adults who work with children or vulnerable people is to be watered down following a public outcry.
School leaders criticise new vetting and barring system
BBC, 11 December 2009
New rules on who can work with children are too bureaucratic and will not guarantee safety, say head teachers.
Paedophile checks ‘ruining pupils’ education’
Daily Telegraph, 11 December 2009
Head teachers have launched a furious attack on Labour’s anti-paedophile database amid claims it is wrecking children's foreign exchange trips and work experience placements.
‘Sick society’ warning as number of criminal checks on children doubles
Daily Mail, 7 December 2009
Now parents face criminal checks just to enter their children’s school
Daily Mail, 7 December 2009
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