Schools: Vetting
Children, Schools and Families
Written answers and statements, 28 October 2009
Andy Reed (Loughborough, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what progress has been made in his Department's Review of the definitions of frequency and intensity in the vetting and barring process; and if he will make a statement.
Dawn Primarolo (Minister of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families; Bristol South, Labour)
The Secretary of State has asked Sir Roger Singleton, chairman of the Independent Safeguarding Authority and the Government's Chief Adviser on the Safety of Children, to check whether the Government have drawn the line in the right place in relation to the degree of contact with children which should trigger the requirement to register with the new scheme. The Secretary of State's letter of