Vetting and Barring Audio Registration

The new scheme, under which employers must carry out checks on staff who come into contact with children or vulnerable adults, comes into effect from 12th October in England and Wales (Scotland in 2010).

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Many more jobs will come within the framework of “regulated activities” and require checks – not just those where Criminal Records Bureau checks already operate.

The new checks apply to any person undertaking a “regulated activity”. This includes activities which involve contact with children or vulnerable adults and are:

• In a specified place (such as a care home or a school); or
• Are specified activities (for example, transport or advice services) and
• Take place frequently, intensively or overnight

A Criminal Offence

It will become a criminal offence for an employer to knowingly employ a barred person in a regulated activity.

Employers will have a duty to notify the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) when they dismiss an employee or where an employee leaves prior to being dismissed in certain circumstances.