The NSPCC charity has welcomed the latest Vetting and Barring scheme being launched in the UK. The procedure will ensure a thorough background search of the millions of people who volunteer to work in Britain, particularly those we work with children.
The new scheme, introduced by the government, can help to provide prospective companies a useful aid to ensure that any volunteers don’t have any previous offences. The current criminal record checks can only ever catch those who have already been prosecuted, and such checks can only provide information at a single point in time.
With a reported 11 million people volunteering in the UK, it is important that the introduction of the new vigorous vetting scheme does not hinder people’s willingness to get involved. These checks have been put into place to seek out the small minority that abuse their power and are not intended to cast suspicion over the many who give up their time to innocently help children.
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