Nursery World - CRB checks to be scaled back in new Bill

Only people who work regularly and intensively with young children and vulnerable adults will have to have Criminal Records Bureau checks, following a Government review of the Vetting and Barring scheme.

Up to nine million fewer volunteers and workers will no longer need toregister, under measures in the Freedoms Bill.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said, 'We inherited a messy criminalrecords regime that developed piecemeal. Our reviews concluded thesystems were not proportionate and needed to be less bureaucratic. Theywill now be scaled back to sensible levels while at the same timeprotecting vulnerable people.'

The plans include:

- merger of the Criminal Records Bureau and Independent SafeguardingAuthority (ISA) to create a new 'streamlined body'

- a large reduction in the number of jobs working with children andvulnerable adults that require CRB checks, to only those involving closeand regular contact

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