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Sue Granville and Shona Mulholland, George Street Research
Scottish Executive Social Research, 2006

ISSN 0950 2254
ISBN 0 7559 6211 7

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

Chapter One - Background

Chapter Two - Coverage of the workforce
2.1 Who should be included?
2.2 Definitions to be applied
2.3 Overseas workers

Chapter Three - Vetting and barring disclosure
3.1 One list or two?
3.2 Costs of disclosure
3.3 Lifetime of disclosure

Chapter Four - Information
4.1 Information sharing
4.2 Updating of information
4.3 Provision of conviction and non conviction information
4.4 Interpretation of information
4.5 Cross border information
4.6 Access to information
4.7 Civil orders
4.8 Regulatory bodies

Chapter Five - The central barring unit
5.1 Structure / preferences for governance
5.2 Decision making process
5.3 Qualities needed by decision-makers
5.4 Structure of the decision-making body
5.5 Provisional listing
5.6 Barred lists

Chapter Six - Referrals from courts and organisations
6.1 Referrals
6.2 Retrospective referrals

Chapter Seven - The legislative context
7.1 Employment legislation
7.2 Human rights legislation
7.3 The legislative impact

Chapter Eight - Implementation
8.1 The current system
8.2 The proposed new scheme
8.3 Phasing / retrospective checking
8.4 The need for guidance
8.5 A need for training
8.6 A need for an information / communications campaign

Chapter Nine - Conclusions

Appendices
Appendix 1 - Scenarios
Appendix 2 - Civic forum briefing paper
Appendix 3 - The consultation process
Appendix 4 - List of respondents
Appendix 5 - The consultation questions
Appendix 6 - Approach to analysis of consultation responses

Charts
Chapter Three - Vetting and barring disclosure: 3.1 preferences for costs of new system
Chapter Five - The central barring unit: 5.1 Preferred governance
Chapter Eight - Implementation: 8.1 Key issues with current system

The views expressed in the report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Scottish Executive or any other organisation(s) by which the author(s) is/are
employed.

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