The new coalition government are to press pause on the rollout of the new CRB/ISA arrangements (and then scrap it altogether?)
The vetting scheme for nine million people working with children and vulnerable adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is to be halted. Home Secretary Theresa May is to announce that registration, due to begin next month, is to be put on hold. There will be a review of the entire vetting and barring scheme, with a “scaling back” likely to follow.
It was just a large undertaking, with 11 million people on it eventually, “one in four of the adult population”. Mad. And are we very confident that its replacement will be any better, any less DailyMailesque? We’ll see, I suppose.
