YOUTH WORK: Scotland to launch banned workers list
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Guidance on the Disqualified from Working with Children List is due to launch in spring 2004. Organisations must report details of any staff member or volunteer who "harms a child or puts a child at risk of harm and is dismissed or moved away from access to children".
The list will be used to vet potential employees and will include information from similar registers elsewhere in the UK.
A spokesman for the Scottish Executive said: "Disclosures issued by the Criminal Records Bureau in England will include information from our list."
The guidance warns it is a criminal offence for anyone on the list to apply for a job working with under-18s. Organisations that knowingly hire disqualified persons will have broken the law.
George Thomson, chief executive of Volunteer Development Scotland, said: "The principle of the list is sound, but it is a tricky thing to undertake.
The voluntary sector will require support to comply."
www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/social/pcain-00.asp.
