Vetting and Barring Policy
Introduction
The Coalition Government has now reviewed the vetting and barring scheme and has introduced the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. This has resulted in the merger of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB); creating the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
This amalgamated Service is responsible for vetting individuals who apply to work in specified posts, and helps prevent unsuitable individuals from working or volunteering with vulnerable groups. It also takes responsibility for creating barred lists of individuals identified to be a risk to people due to their past behaviour.
The DBS uses data gathered by itself and other appropriate sources, which include relevant criminal convictions, cautions and police intelligence.
Employers are also legally bound to inform the DBS if they have sacked an individual for:
The DBS can then decide whether individuals concerned will be included on one of the two DBS Barred Lists (children and adults).
Policy
Ultrasound Baby Face will conduct Enhanced checks with children’s and/or adults’ barred list check(s) where the position meets the new definition of regulated activity – “The provision of health care by any health care professional to a person, or the provision of health care to a person under the direction or supervision of a health care professional, is regulated activity”. (Staff who work in the Practice setting but do not directly provide health care are not working in regulated activity).
By law, the Practice is only allowed to recruit clinical staff who are not on either of the two barred lists.
As the Practice is involved in intensive Regulated Activity, the Practice will ensure that:
The Coalition Government has now reviewed the vetting and barring scheme and has introduced the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. This has resulted in the merger of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB); creating the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
This amalgamated Service is responsible for vetting individuals who apply to work in specified posts, and helps prevent unsuitable individuals from working or volunteering with vulnerable groups. It also takes responsibility for creating barred lists of individuals identified to be a risk to people due to their past behaviour.
The DBS uses data gathered by itself and other appropriate sources, which include relevant criminal convictions, cautions and police intelligence.
Employers are also legally bound to inform the DBS if they have sacked an individual for:
- Actually harming someone;
- Because they might have harmed someone, OR;
- They were planning to sack that person for either of the above, but the individual resigned first.
The DBS can then decide whether individuals concerned will be included on one of the two DBS Barred Lists (children and adults).
Policy
Ultrasound Baby Face will conduct Enhanced checks with children’s and/or adults’ barred list check(s) where the position meets the new definition of regulated activity – “The provision of health care by any health care professional to a person, or the provision of health care to a person under the direction or supervision of a health care professional, is regulated activity”. (Staff who work in the Practice setting but do not directly provide health care are not working in regulated activity).
By law, the Practice is only allowed to recruit clinical staff who are not on either of the two barred lists.
As the Practice is involved in intensive Regulated Activity, the Practice will ensure that:
- The barred status of relevant staff will be checked with the DBS using enhanced checks;
- All relevant staff will be registered with the DBS;
