From next week the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) will begin taking over responsibility for the vetting and barring of new staff in the children's sector.
This is a crucial stage in the development of the ISA, which from October will exercise even greater powers over the wider children and young people's workforce.
What will the ISA be doing over the coming year?
The ISA has been set up as a single vetting and barring body for all those working with children and vulnerable adults. Eventually all children's professionals must be registered with the ISA.
Its powers are being adopted in stages. From 20 January all new referrals for List 99 and the Protection of Children Act and Protection of Vulnerable Adults lists - which record the names of people banned from working with these groups -must be sent to the ISA. These were previously sent to the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health.
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