Child abuse vetting scheme halted

[whiteflyer]

The new government is starting to sort things out and get more common sense into British life, yesterday was the announcement of a complete review of all Health & Safety laws and today the Child abuse vetting scheme has been halted.

The vetting scheme for nine million people working with children and vulnerable adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has been halted.

Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that registration, due to begin next month, has been put on hold.

There will be a review of the entire vetting and barring scheme, with a scaling back to "common-sense levels".

 

[onikami]

What's this got to do with photography?

 

[gingerjon]

What's this got to do with photography?

Given that anybody coming into virtually any contact with children or vulnerable adults - so pretty much any portrait photographer, anybody who goes into schools, anybody taking photos at a sports event where there were minors present - was going to have to submit to this ridiculous system it has quite a lot to do with photography.

 

[KIPAX]

What's this got to do with photography?

a hell of a lot for quite a lot of photographers who would need to be on the list

 

[onikami]

Fair enough.

 

[Coldeh]

I didn't realise the ISA scheme extended to those sorts of posts. What a load of tosh, good on for the review.