News Analysis: Will the new vetting system help us?

By Rosie Walker, Third Sector, 16 April 2008

New controls on people working with children and vulnerable people come in from 2009.

Children's charities do not doubt that a recent £330m overhaul of the vetting procedure for people working with children and vulnerable adults will improve security. But their enthusiasm is tempered by fears that the new system could create a false sense of security, might contain loopholes and could discourage potential...

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