Anybody that is deemed to pose a risk to children or vulnerable adults will be barred by the ISA. They will not be allowed to work with these groups and will be on the ISA's barred list.

 A list of people deemed unsuitable to work with children or vulnerable adults.

The new barred lists will be held by the ISA and will replace the Protection of Children Act (PoCA) List, List 99 and the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (PoVA) List in England and Wales.

A framework to help practitioners work with children and young people’s additional needs for earlier and more effective services, develop a common understanding of those needs and how to work together to meet them.

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The definition of a child varies slightly by setting:

The Children Act 2004 defines a child as anyone under the age of 18, any person aged 18,19 or 20 who has been in care or who has a learning difficulty.

The ISA defines a child as anyone under the age of 18, unless in an employment setting where the age limit is 16.

In education a child is person under 19 years of age and in Justice a child is anyone younger than 14 years old and a young person is someone aged 15 to 17.

The phrase children and young people is used to cover all of these definitions.

Children’s Trusts are responsible for bringing together all services for children and young people in an area.

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The children's workforce includes everyone whose work is mainly with children, young people and families - whether professionally, on an employed or self-employed basis, or in a voluntary capacity, whether for a statutory, private, or voluntary sector employer.

The cycle of assessing the needs of people in an area, designing and then securing an appropriate service.

Short for the Common Core of Skills and Knowledge - a set of skills and knowledge that people who work with children and young people should have.

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Controlled activity is defined as covering the work of:

Ancillary support workers in Further Education, the National Health Service and adult social care (e.g. cleaner, caretaker, catering staff, receptionist) which is done frequently and gives the opportunity for contact with children or vulnerable adults.

People working frequently for specified organisations (e.g. Local Authorities in the exercise of its education or social services functions) in roles which give them the opportunity for access to sensitive records about children or vulnerable adults.
Barred people can sometimes be employed in controlled activity, providing tough safeguards are in place, such as stringent supervision.

A person barred as a result of a relevant autobar caution or conviction will not be able to work or volunteer in controlled activity in Wales.

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The Children's Workforce Development Council - an executive Non-Departmental Public Body that leads workforce reform. They support people who work with children and young people to do the best job they can by joining up the way diffrent agencies work and bringing consistency to the way children and young people are looked after.

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The Department for Children, Schools and Families aims to make this the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up in.

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Every Child Matters is a shared programme of change to improve outcomes for all children and young people. 

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In relation the Vetting and Barring Scheme this means once a month or more.                                                                                                 

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Information Sharing

Effective information sharing is when practitioners use their professional knowledge and experience to work together to share data, information or observations in order to meet the needs of a child or young person.
 

A non-departmental public body (NDPB), sponsored by the Home Office, which acts as the decision making element of the VBS.

They will assess the risk of harm that an individual would pose if they were to work with vulnerable groups, based on information held about that individual.
They will use information from a number of sources including the Police, Local Authorities and employers. 
The ISA consists of trained case workers, who will decide on a case-by-case basis whether a person poses a potential on-going risk.  

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An activity that takes place on three or more days in any 30 day period; or overnight (between 2am and 6am) is considered intensive.

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The person responsible for coordinating the actions identified in the CAF process and acts as a single point of contact for the child or young person.

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Multi Agency Working                                                                 

A children and young people's workforce that is integrated, high quality and making the best contribution to the Every Child Matters outcomes. 

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The 8 principles the workforce should strive towards in order to achieve the 5 Every Child Matters outcomes. These are represented in the form of rainbow with each colour relating to a different principle e.g. Red - Shared identity and purpose.

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The Tool is a method of assessing how well Children's Trust are implementing the principles of the One Children's Workforce Framework. This might be through focus groups or questionnaires.

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A name given to the One Children's Workforce Framework.

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Referral refers to the process of informing the ISA about an individual who has harmed or poses a risk of harming a child or vulnerable adult.

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Regulated activity is defined as:

Activity involving contact with children or vulnerable adults and is of a specified nature(e.g. teaching, training, care, supervision, advice, medical treatment or in certain circumstances transport) on a frequent, intensive and/or overnight basis;

Activity involving contact with children or vulnerable adults in a specified place
(e.g. schools, care homes, etc), frequently or intensively;

Fostering and childcare.

Certain specified positions of responsibility (e.g. school governor, director of
children’s services, director of adult social services, trustees of certain charities).
These positions are set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

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Safeguarding is about everything an organisation can do to keep children and young people safe.                                                 

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A model of multi-agency working that brings practitioners together on a case-by-case basis to meet the needs of an individual child or young person.                                 

A change which may have an impact on a child.

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Vetting and Barring Scheme/VBS / 'the Scheme'

The VBS requires anyone who wants to take part in controlled or regulated activities (see respective entries in the glossary) to register and receive an ISA pin before they can start work or volunteer.

Anyone who presents a known risk to vulnerable groups will be barred and it will be a criminal offence for them to work with vulnerable groups.

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This term does not apply to people just because they may be older or have a disability.
The term is defined according to the service, setting or situation where staff or volunteers are in a position of trust and people have a right to expect that trust will not be abused.   

The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 defines a vulnerable adult in
section 59.
 
Section 59 Vulnerable adults: 
(1) A person is a vulnerable adult if they have attained the age of 18 and—  (a) they are in residential accommodation,  
(b) they are in sheltered housing,  
(c) they receive domiciliary care,  
(d) they receive any form of health care,  
(e) they are detained in lawful custody,  
(f) they are by virtue of an order of a court under supervision by a person exercising functions for the purposes of Part 1 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43),  
(g) they receive a welfare service of a prescribed description,  
(h) they receive any service or participate in any activity provided specifically for persons who fall within subsection (9),  
(i) payments are made to them (or to another on their behalf) in pursuance of arrangements under section 57 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15), or  
(j) they require assistance in the conduct of their own affairs.

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