Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers
There is an excellent article in the Times (subscription required) dated 10th May 2013 concerning the potential for false claims of abuse being made by those who had an association with Jimmy Saville (or any other celebrity or person). Well Worth reading.
This article has been taken from the Daily Telegraph website here Parents could have a harder time finding out if any paedophiles live nearby after a High Court ruling that sex offenders’ human rights to privacy should be considered. In a judgement that lawyers say risks “watering down” what is known as Sarah’s Law, the [...]
This item first appeared on the 11kBW website here Disclosure of sex offender information – new high court judgment October 24th, 2012 The High Court has today handed down an important judgment on the legality of the Government’s Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme (CSOD): X(South Yorkshire) v Secretary of State for the Home Department[2012] EWHC 2954 [...]
This items first appeared on the BBC website here on 1st September 2012 Sex offenders in England and Wales can now appeal against staying on the sex offenders register for life – 15 years to the day since it was introduced. Ministers said they would make “minimum possible changes” to comply with a 2010 Supreme [...]
All registered sex offenders will face much tougher checks from today (13 August). The new measures will tighten areas of the current law that could be open to exploitation by offenders who seek to cause harm. The changes, which the government announced earlier this year (5 March) following a 12 week consultation, will make [...]
The latest issue of SAFARI – issue 88 has been published. This edition provides useful information regarding recent changes to the requirement for people on the SOR to provide the police details of their credit card accounts.
There is a very interesting blog on the UK Human Rights blog about ruling that in some cases number of school teachers in specified towns who had been investigated, cautioned and charged under the Sexual Offences Act must be revealed. In Colleen Smith v IC and Devon & Cornwall Constabulary (EA/2011/0006), the requester asked for [...]
The Home Office have announced tougher checks are to be made on known sex offenders Proposals to introduce tougher checks on known sex offenders have been published today. Currently, sex offenders are required to notify the police of personal details such as address and national insurance number annually and whenever details change. But today the [...]
This article first appeared on the Guardian website A maximum of 1,200 convicted sex offenders a year will be eligible to challenge their inclusion on the sex offender register for life, under Home Office proposals likely to come into force from early next year. The decision by the home secretary, Theresa May, to give registered [...]
The Government have announced that the sex offenders disclosure scheme will operate in all forces in England and Wales by April. Greater protection for children Sex offender disclosure scheme will operate in all forces in England and Wales by April. Children in all 43 police force areas in England and Wales are better protected thanks [...]
The latest National Statistics on the re-offending of adults released from custody or starting a community sentence in England and just been published. Significantly they show that those convicted of sexual offences against children are the least likely to re-offend. A FACT spokesman said he is not surprised by these findings, which broadly speaking are [...]
Copy of press release issued by the Home Office: ‘The sex offenders’ register has existed since 1997. Since that time it has helped the police to protect the public from these most horrific of crimes. Requiring serious sexual offenders to sign the register for life – as they do now – has broad support from [...]
This is an extract from a news report on the BBC website Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales are set to be given the right to appeal against having to register with the police for life. Home Secretary Theresa May said the government would make the “minimum possible changes” to comply with a [...]
The government could face legal action if it continues to ban sex offenders from working with children, according to research published today. A report by a family law expert argues that some sex offenders should be allowed to adopt or foster children, and claims that the current blanket ban is discriminatory. “Sex offenders shouldn’t all [...]
The Scottish Government are consult on changes to sex offenders register. Covering Letter Police Division T: 0131-244-2149 25 October 2010 Dear Consultee Consultation on the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Remedial) (Scotland) Order 2010 The Scottish Government has published a consultation document on the enclosed Order which makes amendments to Part 2 of the Sexual Offences [...]
The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Remedial) (Scotland) Order 2010 This Order makes amendments to Part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 to provide sex offenders, who are subject to the notification requirements of that Part for an indefinite period, with a mechanism for the review of the justification for continuing to remain subject to [...]
MAPPA: open and transparent for greater public protection For the first time, numbers relating to the MAPPA status and management levels of all MAPPA offenders living in England and Wales can now be viewed online. Today, more data than ever before has been published in the 2009/10 Ministry of Justice national statistical bulletin. The bulletin [...]
Two sex offenders today won the right to challenge their lifetime inclusion on the sex offender register after complaining that it breached their human rights. The ruling in the Supreme Court opens the way for hundreds of other sex offenders placed on the register for life to seek to have their details removed. The offenders, [...]
The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced the roll-out of the scheme popularly known as Sarah’s Law. The child sex offender disclosure scheme gives members of the public a formal mechanism to make enquires about people who are in contact with children. Under the terms of the scheme, a parent, carer or guardian or another [...]
The law which puts serious sex offenders on the register for life violates their human rights, three High Court judges said. Under the Sex Offences Act 2003, sex offenders sentenced to 30 months or more ‘shall be subjected for life’ to being on the register. But Lord Justice Latham, sitting with Mr Justice Underhill and [...]
Convicted sex offenders who are being supervised in the community will be made to undertake regular checks under the new scheme. They will be asked if they are sticking to the conditions that govern their release, such as staying away from schools and leisure centres, and will have changes in their heart rate, levels of [...]
Parents will from today be able to ask police whether anyone who has access to their child is a convicted paedophile or is even suspected of abusing children. Police will pass on details of any relevant criminal convictions and may include “soft intelligence” detailing unproven complaints of abuse, even where there was no finding of [...]
According to a report in the Daily Mail park wardens have been ordered to stop and interrogate anyone who is not accompanied by children. The visitors who are quizzed have to explain their presence and risk being thrown out or reported to police if their answers are not satisfactory. The policy has been introduced at [...]
There is as an excellent review by David Belcher in the Scottish Herald of the powerful BBC documentary concerning the way in which social workers investigated allegations of satanic abuse in the Orkneys in the earlier 1990′s. Legacy of an island nightmare DAVID BELCHER “Accused” BBC2, 9pm 21st August 2006 Various things were clear by the time [...]