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Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
DCSF: When don’t you have to register with the Independent Safeguarding Authority ISA Personal & family arrangements and other exemptions under the new Vetting & Barring scheme? This information appears in an annex to a ‘letter from Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families, to MPs in England and Wales’. See press release for details.
DCSF will update this document with further examples each month in response to queries raised with them, from now until the start of ISA registration in November 2010. Updates will be available on the Every Child Matters – V&BS webpage.
SGC: The Sentencing Guidelines Council has published definitive guideline on Corporate Manslaughter and Health & Safety Offences which cause death. The Council sets out principles to guide courts in dealing with companies & organisations that cause death through a gross breach of care or where breach of health & safety requirements are a significant cause of the death.
The advice is clear – punitive & significant fines should be imposed both to deter & to reflect public concern at avoidable loss of life. Fines for companies & organisations found guilty of corporate manslaughter may be millions of pounds and should seldom be below £500,000. For other health & safety offences that cause death, fines from £100,000 up to hundreds of thousands of pounds should be imposed.
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