Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (NI) Order 2003 Pat McGlew Child Care Policy Directorate Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

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Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (NI)
Order 2003Pat McGlewChild Care Policy
DirectorateDepartment of Health, Social Services
and Public Safety
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Overview

• Commenced 1 April 2005
• Strengthened protection arrangements for children
• Placed Pre Employment Consultancy Service on a
  statutory basis

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Overview

• Disqualification List
• Automatic right of Appeal to Care Tribunal
• Choosing to Protect (www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/poc.pdf)

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Main Provisions

• Robust recruitment procedures
• Requirement to refer
• Disqualification List
• Regulated Position
• Requirement to check

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Criteria for Referral

• Individual must have harmed or put a child at
  risk of harm AND has
• been dismissed
• resigned or retired in circumstances where he or
  she would have been dismissed
• been transferred to a non regulated position
• been suspended pending a decision on dismissal or
  transfer.

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Checking Procedures

• Against DHSSPS/DE Statutory Lists
• PSNI Criminal Records check
• Disqualification Orders

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Offences

• It will be an offence to
• Apply for, offer to do, accept or do any work in
  a regulated position if disqualified
• To knowingly offer work in a regulated position
  to a disqualified person
• Fail to remove such a person from a regulated
  position or to procure work in a regulated
  position for a disqualified person.

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Accreditation

• Article 18
• Voluntary System
• Accredited organisation child care organisation
• Requirement to refer and check
• Evidence of minimum child protection standards

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THANK YOU www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/poc.pdf