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Checking Up: How the Coalition's Plans to Cut Back on Criminal Records Checks Have Been Defeated

Checking Up: How the Coalition's Plans to Cut Back on Criminal Records Checks Have Been Defeated


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Since 2002, more than 40 million criminal records checks have been carried out at a cost of nearly two billion pounds, yet there has never been any significant research showing the effectiveness of mass vetting in child protection terms. In June 2010, the Coalition government promised to 'scale back' criminal records checks to 'common-sense proportions', predicting that its reforms would lead to a halving of checks from around four million to 1.7 million. This has not happened. In 2013-14, there were 3,948,793 criminal records checks at a cost of GBP211.6 million. Far from being scaled back, in certain ways the vetting system appears to have become more complicated, expansive and expensive. Vetting is encouraged by state agencies, such as local authorities and regulators, who demand checks even beyond current guidance. Furthermore, the interests of the regulators and the private bodies that rely on income from the checks mean that they will have little interest in reducing unnecessary vetting. This report argues that the current scale of investment in vetting is out of proportion to its positive effects. There is a need to go back to the drawing board and to ask if criminal records checks are the best manner in which to be spending GBP200 million a year.

About the Author :
Josie Appleton is director of the Manifesto Club civil liberties group, and has led the group's work on the vetting and barring scheme since the passing of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act in 2006. She has written over a dozen reports about the growth of child protection measures which have featured widely in print and broadcast media, from The Times to Panorama. She has also written influential reports on issues such as on-the-spot fines, anti-social behaviour powers, the regulation of leafleting, and restrictions in public spaces. Her research interest is to examine the new forms taken by contemporary state regulation and the effect of regulation on the operation of civic life.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781906837662
  • Publisher: Civitas
  • Publisher Imprint: Civitas
  • Height: 198 mm
  • Sub Title: How the Coalition's Plans to Cut Back on Criminal Records Checks Have Been Defeated
  • ISBN-10: 190683766X
  • Publisher Date: 17 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Width: 129 mm


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