After the marginal relaxation of the requirements, all these people will still have to find the fee to get them through the first hurdle, even if subsequently they will still have to undergo robust Criminal Records Bureau checks.
It is far from clear what the wider ramifications will be. There are already concerns about the loss of potential volunteers and the further undermining of trust between children and adults. My own concern is that we lose the possibility of building trust between responsible adults and those who, at some point in their own past, may have fallen partially to the wayside. I am not talking about predatory paedophiles, who obviously should be barred, but individuals with chequered pasts, whose soft profile (permissible evidence for the vetting and barring process) would rule them out.
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