The Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) (Wales) Regulations 2009

Amendments to the Independent School Standards (Wales) Regulations 2003

4.—(1) The Independent School Standards (Wales) Regulations 2003(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 in the definition of “appropriate criminal record certificate”—

(a) after “section 113B of the Police Act 1997” insert “which includes suitability information relating to children within the meaning of section 113BA(2) of that Act”;

(b) after “section 113A of the Police Act 1997” insert “which includes suitability information relating to children within the meaning of section 113BA(2) of that Act”; and

(c) omit the words “provided that, in both cases, where the person holds a position mentioned in section 113C(5) of the Police Act 1997, the certificate also contains the information specified in section 113C(1) of that Act;”.

(3) In the Schedule in sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph 4, after “any member of staff” insert “is barred from regulated activity relating to children in accordance with section 3(2) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006(2) or”.

(1)

S.I. 2003/3234 (W.314), as amended by S.I. 2007/947 (W.81), S.I. 2005/2929 (W.214).

(2)

2006 c. 47. S.I. 2009/1797 specifies that, for the purposes of section 3(2)(b), the list maintained under Article 6(1)(a) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1351 (N.I. 11)) (i.e. the children’s barred list for Northern Ireland) is a list that corresponds to the children’s barred list established and maintained under section 2(1)(a) of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.