Freedom Bill announcement on safeguarding
Friday, 11 February 2011
"Volunteering England welcomes the broad proposals to revise the safeguarding systems announced as part of the Freedom Bill. The portability of criminal records checks will be widely seen as helpful by volunteers and volunteering organisations. The lower level of involvement for people and roles will also reduce a significant barrier to volunteering."
"Today's announcement is beneficial for the volunteering movement, but the consultations and detailed work on implementation will be all-important, and we look forward to contributing to that process. In particular, much will depend on how the legislation and regulations set a framework within which volunteering organisations can organise supervision and risk assessment on behalf of volunteers and of the children and vulnerable adults they are involved with."
11 February 2011
Mike Locke, Director of Public Affairs for Volunteering England
Notes to Editor
- For media enquires please contact Mike Locke on 020 7520 8930 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- Volunteering England is an independent charity and membership organisation, committed to supporting, enabling and celebrating volunteering in all its diversity.
- Our work links policy, research, innovation, good practice and programme management in the involvement of volunteers. We have a diverse membership drawn from the public, private and voluntary and community sectors. These include national charities, further and higher education, NHS Trusts, arts and sports organisations, Volunteer Centres and local community projects. On behalf of our members and the wider volunteering movement, we work with local and central Government, national agencies and infrastructure partnerships.
- Volunteering England is at the centre, bringing ideas and people together, developing better networks and structures, and initiating projects to support volunteering in a wide range of fields, such as health and social care, sport and employer-supported volunteering.
