A report by the Child Protection All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), Vetting and Disclosures: Getting it Right in Practice, notes that the Protection of Freedoms Bill reduces the scope of "regulated activity relating to children".
It states that this could leave many people who have not gone through the vetting and barring system continuing to work and volunteer with young children.
Under legislation currently going through parliament, volunteers would only be checked if they have unsupervised contact with children.
But child protection experts have previously raised concerns on this issue, stating that supervised volunteers can still have contact, arrange to see children and form relationships with them.
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