NCA publishes General Election Advocacy Toolkit
Friday, February 19th, 2010 Posted in Policy, practitioners | No Comments »In the run up to the General Election, candidates’ policy priorities will be based on the concerns and opinions expressed by their local constituents. The NCA is urging members to use the Arts Manifesto as an advocacy tool to promote ...
Free Vetting and Barring Scheme Briefings, Regional Events
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in Policy | No Comments »NCVYS and Children England are jointly delivering a series of regional events to brief the voluntary and community youth sector on the new Vetting and Barring Scheme. These free half-day events are running throughout early 2010 and are aimed specifically ...
Voluntary sector warns business secretary to reverse music decision for charities
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in Policy | No Comments »More than a dozen umbrella bodies and major charities have written to Lord Mandelson calling on him to reverse a decision to start charging charities for playing recorded music before it becomes law this month. The Department for Business, Innovation and ...
Charity Builder UK
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 Posted in Policy | No Comments »Charity Builder UK (CBUK) is an innovative new way of helping voluntary and community groups address any human resources and health and safety issues they may have free of charge. The new service is provided by Tennyson Insurance who specialise in ...
Vetting and Barring scheme
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 Posted in Policy | No Comments »Sir Roger Singleton, the Government’s Chief Adviser on the Safety of Children and Chair of the Independent Safeguarding Authority, has made a series of recommendations on how best to change the rules governing the Government’s Vetting and Barring scheme. In ...
Official guidance on the new vetting and barring scheme
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Posted in East, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, Policy, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire, young people | No Comments »The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) has released official guidance on the new vetting and barring scheme, which was launched last month to protect young and vulnerable people. The scheme will have a major impact on the recruitment and monitoring practices of ...
Vetting and barring scheme
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Policy, young people | No Comments »On 12 October 2009, the Independent Safeguarding Authority’s (ISA) vetting and barring scheme (VBS) went live. All organisations that employ paid staff or volunteers that work with children and young people need to be aware of the scheme and implications ...
ISA questionnaire
Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in East, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Policy, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire | No Comments »Clinks has compiled a questionnaire around the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) to get views on the forthcoming Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS). The findings will be fed back to the Ministry of Justice and the ISA in a joint meeting ...
CRB check fees
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Posted in East, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Policy, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire | No Comments »The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) has reduced the fee for Standard Disclosures from £31 to £26. The change will come into effect from 1 October 2009. The planned fee reduction has been made possible due to an expected increase in ...
Independent Safeguarding Authority – The Vetting & Barring scheme
Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in East, East Midlands, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Policy, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire, practitioners, young people, youth arts, youth theatre | No Comments »Employers and volunteer organisations who deal with children and vulnerable adults always need to check a person’s ISA status before employing them. You cannot take their word for it and neither can you have them in post – even supervised ...
