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What guidance she has issued to the voluntary sector in respect of (a) training arrangements and (b) checks on the suitability of personnel working with children. - Includes figure and ref to 'Safe from Harm: A Code of Practice for Safeguarding the Welfare of Children in Voluntary Organisations in England...

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Joan Walley (Labour)

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Department of National Heritage

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Written questions

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21 November 1996

Answered on

21 November 1996

Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what guidance she has issued to the voluntary sector in respect of (a) training arrangements and (b) checks on the suitability of personnel working with children. [4361] Mr. Sproat: The Department of National Heritage makes grants totalling nearly £12 million annually to organisations which support a healthy, cost-effective voluntary sector and promote volunteering. A number of these organisations are funded to provide a range of services to other voluntary organisations, including training. Departments may issue guidance to voluntary organisations working in areas relevant to Departmental interests. For instance in 1993 the Home Office, in consultation with the Department of Health, the then Department for Education and the Welsh Office published "Safe from Harm: A Code of Practice for Safeguarding the Welfare of Children in Voluntary Organisations in England and Wales". The code offered a guide to good policy and practice in areas such as recruitment, supervision and management, and set out recommendations and statements of principle which voluntary organisations are asked to consider in the light of their own particular circumstances. Guidance to voluntary organisations seeking checks on the suitability of personnel working with children was issued in 1994--Home Office Circular 42/94, Department of Health Local Authority Circular (94)22, Welsh Office Circular 64/94--"Protection of Children: Disclosure of Criminal Background to Voluntary Sector Organisations" which set out the criteria for obtaining criminal record checks for use by voluntary organisations which were members of the voluntary organisations consultancy service. Copies of both the code of practice and the circular are available in the Library of the House. Proposals for new arrangements for access to criminal record checks are in the Police Bill, currently before Parliament.

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21 November 1996

Reference

4361; 285 c642-3W;285 c644-5W

House

House of Commons

Dept of National Heritage

What inquiries to detect fraud by cross-checking her Department's payroll with details of those claiming benefit she has undertaken; when these exercises took place; and how many staff were (a) suspended, (b) dismissed and (c) prosecuted as a result. - Inc fact that no staff have been suspended, dismissed or...

Asked by

Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)

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Department of National Heritage

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Written questions

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Answered

Date

17 July 1996

Reference

37706; 281 c543W

House

House of Commons

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