The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c 47) is an
Act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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. It was created following the
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accepting recommendation 19 of the inquiry headed by
Sir Michael Bichard, which was set up in the wake of the
Soham Murders
The Soham murders were a double child murder committed in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002. The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident a ...
.
The Act established the legal basis for the
Independent Safeguarding Authority
The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) was a non-departmental public body for England, Northern Ireland and Wales, that existed until 1 December 2012, when it merged with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) to form the Disclosure and Barring ...
who managed the two lists of people barred from working with children and/or vulnerable adults replacing the former barred lists (
List 99, the
Protection of Children Act 1999 (PoCA), the scheme relating to the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (PoVA) and Disqualification Orders).
Vetting and Barring Scheme
Every Child Matters website The Act also places a statutory duty on all those working with vulnerable groups to register and undergo an advanced vetting
Vetting is the process of performing a background check on someone before offering them employment, conferring an award, or doing fact-checking prior to making any decision. In addition, in intelligence gathering, assets are vetted to determine th ...
process with criminal sanctions for non-compliance.
Section 65 - Commencment
The following orders were made under this section:
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2007
(S.I. 2007/3545 (C.153))
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2008
(S.I. 2008/1320 (C.57))
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2009
(S.I. 2009/39 (C.3))
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2009
(S.I. 2009/1503 (C.76))
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activity, Miscellaneous and Transitional Provisions and Commencement No. 5) Order 2009
(S.I. 2009/2610 (C.114))
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 6, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009
(S.I. 2009/2611 (C.115))
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 6, Transitional Provisions and Savings (Amendment)) and (Commencement No. 7) Order 2010
(S.I. 2010/1101 (C.72))
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) (England) Order 2008
(S.I. 2008/3204 (C.145))
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2008
(S.I. 2008/930 (C.45))
References
External links
Bichard ReportEvery Child MattersWelsh Assembly Government Vetting and Barring webpage
Explanatory notes
to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.
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United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2006
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Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning England and Wales
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