School safeguarding failure

This other recent story is also an example of the consequences of serious systematic safeguarding failures.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7896005/Mother-claims-son-7-lost-identity-sexually-assaulted-teaching-assistant.html?fbclid=IwAR2T17uxoYvQKS7Akz0V6lyWtAuDEaxr7Q8l08Ob1Xsp5FfpG47cMJW-vL0

A 7yr old boy was sexually assaulted at school by a reading volunteer, who was a local university student. The perpetrator was brought into the school through a scheme at his university and he had volunteered in several schools. However in court it was revealed that the perpetrator had previously touched a 13-year-old boy inappropriately, but it had been dealt with by the victim's school rather than being reported to the police.

The sexual assault of the 7yr old boy could have been prevented had the 13yr old boy's school acted on the report appropriately. It is dangerous to children when schools, agencies, the police or others do not follow safeguarding frameworks properly or when they fail to understand the importance of every single part of these frameworks.

There are many examples of the consequences of serious systemic Safeguarding framework failures. This is a very important one.

thread collating some of the many others:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3301266-Safeguarding-girls-and-protecting-women-post-Jimmy-Saville-metoo

This is a failure of the agencies concerned. The allegations should have been recorded and shown up on an enhanced DBS check - that's the whole purpose of enhanced checks - although as we are discovering these are beginning to have more holes than a colander in certain circumstances.

The previous event didn't end up in conviction. Nothing on his record.

Enhanced DBS checks (formerly CRB) are specifically supposed to show up "additional information held by local police considered relevant to the role in question."

CRB was brought in after the abuse & murder of Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman by Ian Huntley (school caretaker) because although he had no convictions for sex offences, he had been reported to police in his native Humberside on six occasions over sexual assaults or sexual relationships with underage girls.

The safeguarding rules need tightening up to include previous complaints whether or not they resulted in a conviction

I believe that is already the case. Which is why the agency should have passed on the information.

But if Harry (the Owl) Millers' crime-not crime would show on an advance DBS search, how is this not picked up?

That's the million dollar question isnt it...

Lang Cleg would probably have had some helpful info here. What a shame she's been permanently banned.

Nothing on his record.

But if Harry (the Owl) Millers' crime-not crime would show on an advance DBS search, how is this not picked up?

I don't know anything about DBS so my question might be completely stupid.

I thought that was the whole point of the DBS check...