The April edition of the ISA Newsletter has just been released and includes information on the scheme implementation date and the costs that apply to the scheme.
The Independent Safeguarding Authority’s (ISA) role is to help prevent unsuitable people from working with children and vulnerable adults.
This will be done by working in Partnership with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) who will gather any relevant information on every person who wants to work or volunteer with vulnerable children and adults.
The ISA will assess every person who wants to work or volunteer with vulnerable people. In a Sports environment potential coaches and volunteers etc will need to apply to register with the ISA.
Using this information the ISA will decide on a case-by-case basis whether each person is suited to this work.
The ISA will securely store information about people’s ISA status for employers and voluntary organisations to use when they are recruiting.
Only applicants who are judged not to pose a risk to vulnerable people can be ISA registered. Once the scheme has been fully rolled out, employers who work with vulnerable people will only be allowed to recruit people who are ISA registered.
Please click here to download the April ISA Newsletter