Daily Archives: 25/02/2011

Maynard pledges to hold bosses to account on access

25/02/2011 – 10:53 am

Leisure, public transport, tourism and university bosses are to be brought in front of a new group of MPs and “held to account” for their failure to make services accessible to young disabled people.
Paul Maynard, chair of the new all party parliamentary group (APPG) for young disabled people, made the pledge at the group’s launch [...]

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Government to scale back vetting and barring scheme

25/02/2011 – 10:49 am

Millions of people working or volunteering with “vulnerable adults” and children will no longer need to have their criminal records checked, under new government proposals.
The government said it wanted to “scale back” the Labour government’s plans for the vetting and barring scheme (VBS) – which was to cover England, Wales and Northern Ireland – to [...]

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