The Department for Education and Skills is consulting on the finerpoints of how the new procedures will work, which will mean there is oneauthority in charge of vetting people who work with children.
People wanting to work with children will have to apply to theIndependent Safeguarding Authority, formally known as the IndependentBarring Board.
The authority will carry out checks for offences against a child bypotential employees or any concerns raised, and decide whether or notthey will be put on barring lists.
The consultation, Barring Consultation: Implementing the SafeguardingVulnerable Groups Act 2006 and the Northern Ireland Order 2007 looks atwhether or not people agree with the list of offences that would resultin automatic barring from working with children. These offences includerape of a child, sexual assault of a child under 13, infanticide andcruelty to children.
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