Ministers have agreed to make 1m available per year so that volunteers working with vulnerable adults and children in the voluntary sector will not have to pay a fee for the checks. However, this will not apply to childminders and private day nurseries.
A different approach is being taken in England, where all childcarers have been exempted from paying for criminal records checks in the first year of operation of the new Criminal Records Bureau. In Scotland the checks will be carried out by Disclosure Scotland, formerly part of the Scottish Criminal Records Office. Local authorities previously carried the cost of police checks.
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