Nurseries confused on police checking

Private childcare providers face confusion over whether they need to register with Disclosure Scotland, the new police checks organisation, to access criminal records information about potential employees. The Scottish Executive had said that private nurseries and clubs would not have to become registered bodies in order to check criminal records (News, 21 March 2002). It was thought that the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, which took over regulation from local authorities on 1 April, would act as a registered body on their behalf. However, it has now come to light that this was only an interim arrangement which...