DBS: Disqualification by association now SCRAPPED for schools

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DQ by association requirements now scrapped for schools, already.

Because no male teacher would ever dream of using coercive control to get his wife to take the rap for his child porn abuse images so that he could carry on teaching and having access to vulnerable children.

Never mind a bus, you could drive a cruise liner through that loophole. And it's already in effect. And where are the Press on this?

I am increasingly sure that there is a deliberate and very quiet removal of safeguarding across the board going on. The TRA/self-id aspect is just the most visible.

Does anyone know - are individual schools able to still insist that new staff confirm that they don't live with offenders?

There's a decent summary of the amendments here: www.safeguardinginschools.co.uk/disqualification-by-association-september-2018/

Identify and record which staff are covered by Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006 (including volunteers and people on work placements).

Ask relevant staff to self-declare that they are not Disqualified under the Childcare Act 2006. (A form is not necessary). [An Enhanced DBS Certificate will confirm this for new staff; for existing employees schools could consider using the DBS Update Service to supplement any employee self-declaration.]

Remind all staff about the expectation to inform the school where their relationships and associations, both within and outside of the workplace (including online), may have implications for the safeguarding of children in the school.

Remind all staff that if their circumstances change they must inform the school. (Decide where to put this in writing: Staff Code of Conduct and/or in staff contracts.)

So we can but it's not an automatic bar?

I do fucking despair at this. Honestly. So regressive.