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Taxi drivers will be eligible for enhanced background checks under new proposals announced today.
Today’s proposals will allow taxi licensing authorities to carry out enhanced criminal records checks on their drivers before they are issued with a licence. Current drivers will get additional checks when they renew their licence.
Under the current regime, only drivers who pick up children or vulnerable adults are automatically eligible for enhanced checks, although some firms do choose to get these extra checks for drivers as a matter of course.
Protecting the public
These proposals standardise the practice and simplify the system giving additional reassurance to women travelling alone and other ...
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A Newbury school has been exonerated by an independent review following claims made during a court case earlier in the year.
In April the principal at Mary Hare School, Tony Shaw, announced that Sir Roger Singleton would conduct the “evidential and exhaustive” investigation into safeguarding at the school for the deaf.
Now, in his report, Sir Roger, chairman of the Independent Safeguarding Authority, has concluded that the school’s portrayal during the court hearing as a place where promiscuity was condoned has not been supported by the evidence.
Sir Roger has stated in his findings: “The picture of rampant sexual behaviour at Mary Hare ...
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This article appeared on the This is Hull and East Riding website on 24th September 2012
Stopped from seeing his own children by social services after the allegations were made by the 15-year-old boy, it took Mark Ellwood 18 months to clear his name.
For the former kickboxer, with almost 250 fights under his belt, it was his lowest point of his life.
Now cleared by a court and exonerated by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), Mark’s life is on the up after launching his own kickboxing gym.
“I really feel like I can finally get back to doing what I know best after ...
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The Home Office has begun to look for a replacement for the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), with a tender for a company to run outsourced disclosure and barring services.
The new service will bring the CRB and ISA together, and is aimed at supporting the implementation of the protection of freedoms bill.
It will involve the receipt and processing of referrals for a barring decision, applications for disclosure, workflow management, customer and registration services, the issuing of certificates, payment services and running a call centre. All of the ...
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