Thursday 5 November 10:30 – 11:30 (60 minutes)
Strand: Policy into practice
Speakers: Adrian McAllister (Chief Executive, Independent safeguarding Authority) and Veronica Monks (Policy Lead, Department of Health)
The rollout of the new Vetting & Barring Scheme to safeguard children and vulnerable adults will be implemented from October 2009. Along with the introduction of extended definitions of regulated activity, there is a new referral process which feeds into decisions about barring individuals from working in the NHS. This session will explain the new processes and therefore requires some existing knowledge of the scheme.
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