A childcare recruitment agency has been ordered to disclose the references it receives to candidates who request them, prompting concerns that employers may be deterred from providing candid information and children could be put at risk.
Tinies Childcare became locked in a battle with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) following a nursery nurses suspicions that she was being turned down for jobs because a former employer had given her a bad reference.
Although her former employer, a nursery manager, said that she did not want her opinions passed on to the nursery nurse, the Information Commissioner is insisting that Tinies reveal them.
Nursery World has seen correspondence from the ICO which says that if Tinies does not comply it could face criminal prosecution, non-criminal enforcement or audit.
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