“The government is to look again at the detailed operation of its controversial scheme to vet the 11 million adults who are in regular contact with other people’s children in the face of a public outcry that it could jeopardise ‘perfectly safe and normal activities’.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Leading figures from education, politics and charity voice their concerns over the new ‘paedophile checks’.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Government’s new anti-paedophile database will take into account lifestyles, relationships and beliefs when assessing the backgrounds of more than 11million people, rather than just whether they have a criminal record. The Independent Safeguarding Authority can consider unproven allegations made in newspaper reports or tip-offs from members of the public, as well as trawling internet chatrooms and websites such as Facebook for evidence to use against applicants.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Thousands of crimes are never put on to the police national computer because of a £3 million row over who should pay towards uploading them on to the IT system.”
The Times, 1st September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Fingerprints, DNA and records of Tory MP arrested over Home Office leaks deleted as ‘exceptional case’.”
The Guardian, 20th August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The man whose inquiry led to new vetting procedures for adults working with children today calls on the Government to rethink parts of its controversial anti-paedophile register.”
The Independent, 6th August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“More than 1,500 people have been wrongly branded as criminals or mistakenly given a clean record by the government agency set up to vet those working with children, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
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Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Guidance for the controversial Independent Safeguarding Authority states that youths who want to help vulnerable groups will have to be vetted ‘in time for their 16th birthday to avoid committing an offence’.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
R (F and another) v Secretary of State for Justice [2009] EWCA Civ 792; [2009] WLR (D) 25
“The absence of a right of review at any time of notification requirements imposed under s 82(1) and Sch 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 was a disproportionate interference with an offender’s rights under art 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. As a matter of principle, an offender was entitled to have the question whether the notification requirements continued to serve a legitimate purposes determined on a review; and the case for granting a declaration of incompatibility pursuant to s 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998 was even stronger in the case of young offenders than in the case of adult offenders. However, restriction on travel included in notification requirements did not infringe art 4 of Directive 2004/38.”
WLR Daily, 24th July 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Last December the European Court of Human Rights decided in S and Marper v The United Kingdom that the retention by the State of DNA profiles is a breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. That is because information about people arrested for, or charged with, an offence but not subsequently convicted, is kept on the national DNA database for an unlimited period of time. The Government has accepted the judgment of the European court and announced that it will change the law to ensure compliance. But its proposed method of doing so is unsatisfactory and needs reconsideration.”
The Times, 2nd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Data about the criminal convictions of one million people could be deleted from police computers, the Court of Appeal has been told.”
BBC News, 22nd June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The investigation into alleged child abuse at the Little Ted nursery is likely to consider whether the worker who was charged yesterday was subjected to the correct vetting process. Loopholes in vetting came to light after the Soham murders of 2002. Yet a new system designed to strengthen checks has yet to come into force, although ministers say they are confident that they will meet the latest deadline of this October.”
The Times, 11th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A teacher has won a High Court battle to have his DNA destroyed after he was unlawfully arrested by police when accused of assault by a pupil.”
The Times, 7th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The university admissions service, Ucas, is considering whether to drop a requirement for students to declare criminal convictions when they apply to university, following a high-profile case exposed by the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 28th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A scheme giving parents details about sex offenders who may come into contact with their children is being extended.”
BBC News, 15th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“More than 1,000 serving police officers have criminal convictions ranging from assault to burglary, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.”
The Guardian, 11th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Social workers failed to warn foster parents about sexual offences committed by a teenager placed in their care who went on to rape their two-year-old son and abuse their nine-year-old daughter.”
The Times, 3rd March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“One in five people fear a criminal records check will not protect children from being groomed by paedophiles, a poll for the Home Office shows.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Proper criminal checks were not carried out on a convicted child sex offender who went on to film the abuse of boys on field trips, an inquiry has found.”
BBC News, 12th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Some public bodies and firms working on government contracts force staff to submit to criminal records checks, a BBC investigation has found.”
BBC News, 16th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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