Protection - Vulnerable Adults and Minors

The Protection Policy, version April 2007, is available to the right of this page. The policy will be updated when the Government has reviewed the VBS and clubs will be notified of when the new policy document is available.

A hard copy is available within the club from either the Club Secretary or the Club Protection Officer. The RIBI Protection Officer is David Brown from District 1070 and he can be contacted at protection@ribi.org

February 2011

Supplementary information for Scotland is available to the right of this page.

June 2010

Please view VBS update to the right of this page.

March 2010

Full guidance about the Vetting and Barring Scheme is available to the right of this page.
This document contains details on:
• The scope of the Scheme;
• Barring arrangements;
• Responsibilities and duties for both employers and volunteer organisers, and the duties for those individuals you take on;
• Timescales for the phased implementation of the Scheme;
• Explanation of transitional arrangements around Scheme introduction.

This full guidance release will be followed by a suite of 'sector specific' guidance documents, which will show how the Scheme will be applied in different areas of work and volunteering activities and will be published shortly.

December 2009

There is an interesting and useful diagram on the right hand side of this page which demonstrates the effects of the Independent Safeguarding Authority.

July 2009

For clubs and districts in England, Wales & Northern Ireland the next year will see the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) in full swing. They will be listing or barring individuals working with children and vulnerable adults.The new registration with a CRB check will be available from July 2010 and compulsory from November 2010.

From October 2009 the Standard CRB check will not be relevant for our purposes and therefore we should only seek enhanced checks henceforth.

The other immediate change is our definition of regular involvement.This is now defined in the new Act as more than once per month and we should immediately adopt this definition.

Below is a list of documents available to download you may find helpful:

Form A - For use with Rotarians and volunteers where disclosure not needed

Form B - For use when seeking references

Form C - Complete when seeking official disclosure

Form D - Guidance notes for completing disclosures

Form E - Reporting suspicions of allegations of child or vulnerable adult abuse

Form F - Parental consent form

Form G - Parental consent form for photographing children

Form H - Risk assessment record sheet

Form I - CRB & Dosclosure Scotland guidelines

Form J - Host Family application

Form K - Host family selection interview form