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How Safeguarding Works

. To undertake ?regulated activity', an individual must be registered with the Independent Safeguarding Authority. Making an application: Those who are working, or applying to work, with children or vulnerable adults will apply to the scheme via the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). New employees an

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How Safeguarding Works

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    1. How Safeguarding Works SVGA 2006 With Yens Marsen-Luther

    2. To undertake ‘regulated activity’, an individual must be registered with the Independent Safeguarding Authority. Making an application: Those who are working, or applying to work, with children or vulnerable adults will apply to the scheme via the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). New employees and volunteers can apply from July 2010. (Arrangements for phasing applications from existing members of the workforce will be over a 5-year period from 2011). There will be a one-off cost of registration of £64, free to volunteers – who pays will be up to the individual and the employer.

    3. How the vetting and barring decision is made: The CRB will check whether there is any relevant information from the police or any referral information from other sources (e.g. employers, professional and regulatory bodies). If there is no relevant information, the CRB will inform the applicant that he/she has become “subject to monitoring” (see below).

    4. How the vetting and barring decision is made: cont. If there is relevant information, the CRB will pass this to the Independent Safeguarding Authority for a barring decision. In all cases, except those involving the most serious offences, individuals will have the opportunity to make representations about why they should not be barred on the basis of this information. They will also have the right of appeal to the Care Standards Tribunal.

    5. How the vetting and barring decision is made: cont. If the employer has also requested a CRB Enhanced Disclosure, the CRB will also confirm on the certificate any details relating to the barred status of the applicant – for instance whether the applicant is “subject to monitoring”.

    6. Subject to monitoring: All applicants, except those who are barred, will become “subject to monitoring”. This means that the individual is not on a barred list and that the Independent Safeguarding Authority would review its barring decision if relevant new police or referral information became available. Under the new scheme, employers and providers would be notified – where they have registered an interest - if the individual’s monitoring status changed.

    7. Online checking: Any subsequent employers or providers will be able to do an online check on an individual’s status, including parents and carers. In most cases, employers/providers will be entitled to seek an Enhanced Disclosure from the CRB, which will contain criminal records information (although parents, individuals, or their carers do not have this option). And some employers will continue to be required to obtain Enhanced Disclosures.

    8. The New & Transitional Arrangements for Safeguarding SVGA 2006 With Yens Marsen-Luther

    9. SVGA 2006 The aim of the scheme is to provide a more effective and streamlined vetting service, referred to as VBS, vetting and barring scheme, for potential employees and volunteers. This means that the current vetting systems using List 99 and POCA will be integrated to create a single list of people barred from working with children. In addition a separate, but aligned, list of people barred from working with vulnerable adults will be established, replacing POVA. In effect, there will just be two lists: the children’s barred list and the adult’s barred list.

    10. As from October 12th 2009: ISA will take on Safeguarding role and will start to combine the following 3 lists into 2, POCA, POVA & List 99 to Children’s Barring List & Vulnerable Adult’s Barring List

    11. As from October 12th 2009: Employers, local authorities, professional regulators have a duty to refer to the ISA, information . Employment agencies, will have a legal duty to refer any information to ISA about individuals working with children or vulnerable adults where they consider them to have caused harm or pose a risk of harm. The legal duty to refer concerns information which has or would have led to the individual being dismissed.

    12. As from October 12th 2009: Note: Any information passed to ISA in this way will be notified to the individual whom it refers to and they will be invited to make their own representations

    13. As from July 2010: New employees & those changing jobs in regulated activity, working with vulnerable groups will apply for ISA registration. CRB will check whether they have information which would indicate that they must be barred or whether the IBB should consider whether they need to be barred If they are not barred then ISA will register them as people who will go on their monitoring list

    14. As from November 2010: Registration with ISA becomes mandatory for all new employees and those changing jobs before they can start work. From 2011 Over a five year period all people working with vulnerable groups will need to register with ISA to be placed on their monitoring list whilst they work in either a regulated or controlled activity.

    15. Regulated Activity includes work that involves: any activity which involves close contact with children or vulnerable adults and is of a specified nature (e.g. teaching, training, care, supervision, advice, treatment or transport) • any activity allowing contact with children or vulnerable adults and is in a specified place (e.g. schools, care homes, etc.) • fostering and childcare • certain defined positions of responsibility (e.g. school governor, director of social services, trustees of certain charities) and where the activity is ‘frequent’ (once a month or more) or takes place on three or more days in a 30 day period (‘intensive’).

    16. Controlled Activity includes work that involves: support work in general health, NHS, Further Education settings (e.g. cleaner, caretaker, shop worker, catering staff, car park attendant, receptionist) those working for specified organisations (e.g. a local authority) with frequent access to sensitive records about children and vulnerable adults • support work in adult social care settings (e.g. day centre cleaners, those with access to health records) and where the activity is ‘frequent’ (once a month or more) or takes place on more than three or more days in a 30 day period (‘intensive’).

    17. Previous Guidance on Safeguarding Children & Adults continues to apply ‘No Secrets’: Guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse Every Child Matters & Children Act 2004 Sets out a more integrated approach to working with and sharing of information about children and sets out a statutory requirement for local authorities to set up Local Children Safeguarding Boards

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