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Is The Teaching Profession so Black & White?
I also work in an adult sector where firms who fund adult courses insist on enhanced crbs even though there is no contact with children, and they dictate the status of what a vulnerable adult is, not the law !
They say the unemployed are per se vulnerable ! Why don’t they just say all students are vulnerable !
It is imperative that the legislation you draw up considers the following: Soft evidence is banned.
If not, soft evidence is used only if the ISA raise concerns over working with children or vulnerable adults. Firms cannot apply for blanket enhanced crb checks, and if they do, they are financially penalised.
It is imperative that we protect the most vulnerable in society, especially children. I could not agree more. However, the legislation the Labour Party drew up was too draconian, lacked balance and effectively punished people like me with no stain on our character. The pre-trial hearing I attended in 2008 made reference to the honourable nature of my reporting to the IWF; my good character; my decency. No mention of that when the ecrbs come into play! Working Links lost the East Midlands contract and if the DWP had known the extent to which they were breaking the law, they are lucky to have even got the morsels of the Future Jobs programme they have recently. I thank Andrew Robathan for the support he gave me to get Working Links to think again about how they use crb checks, though I have no proof they have changed as they said they would. Nevertheless, it condemned a good person like me to agony and despair that should not have happened.
The police state they have a ‘duty’ to report soft information on enhanced disclosures. How can that be just, when someone has clearance from the ISA, so their comments are irrelevant, aren’t they ? Soft ‘evidence’ has, and will continue, to blight the careers of many. FYI, I was deemed an inspirational teacher, and my Ofsted-observed lesson one of the top 3 in 200 inspections, yet I could not set foot near a school with the comments on my ecrb ! This must be stopped, as it is hard enough getting men into teaching.
Whatever you do, keep protection in but get rid of soft evidence. If you are innocent you are innocent !
If the ISA say you are not barred, why should soft evidence bar you?
April 2011
They say the unemployed are per se vulnerable ! Why don’t they just say all students are vulnerable !
It is imperative that the legislation you draw up considers the following: Soft evidence is banned.
If not, soft evidence is used only if the ISA raise concerns over working with children or vulnerable adults. Firms cannot apply for blanket enhanced crb checks, and if they do, they are financially penalised.
It is imperative that we protect the most vulnerable in society, especially children. I could not agree more. However, the legislation the Labour Party drew up was too draconian, lacked balance and effectively punished people like me with no stain on our character. The pre-trial hearing I attended in 2008 made reference to the honourable nature of my reporting to the IWF; my good character; my decency. No mention of that when the ecrbs come into play! Working Links lost the East Midlands contract and if the DWP had known the extent to which they were breaking the law, they are lucky to have even got the morsels of the Future Jobs programme they have recently. I thank Andrew Robathan for the support he gave me to get Working Links to think again about how they use crb checks, though I have no proof they have changed as they said they would. Nevertheless, it condemned a good person like me to agony and despair that should not have happened.
The police state they have a ‘duty’ to report soft information on enhanced disclosures. How can that be just, when someone has clearance from the ISA, so their comments are irrelevant, aren’t they ? Soft ‘evidence’ has, and will continue, to blight the careers of many. FYI, I was deemed an inspirational teacher, and my Ofsted-observed lesson one of the top 3 in 200 inspections, yet I could not set foot near a school with the comments on my ecrb ! This must be stopped, as it is hard enough getting men into teaching.
Whatever you do, keep protection in but get rid of soft evidence. If you are innocent you are innocent !
If the ISA say you are not barred, why should soft evidence bar you?
April 2011
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