Campaigners call for clampdown on adults who are banned from work with children

2 September 2011 2 mins read Neil Puffett Children's Services Social Care Safeguarding and child protection

Only a small fraction of adults suspected of breaking the law by working or attempting to work with children while banned has faced prosecution, CYP Now has learned.

Following a Freedom of Information request to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), it has emerged that just 19 people appeared before the courts charged with a total of 21 offences related to working with children while on the barred list, since April 2006.

Of those 19, only nine were recorded as being convicted of the offence, which carries a maximum five-year prison sentence. For the latest year available, April 2010 to March 2011, six charges proceeded to court against four people.

But the Independent Safeguarding Authority has shared information with CYP Now showing that 36 people were suspected of applying to work with children between 1 May 2010 and 10 August 2011 while barred.

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