Sex offenders’ register plan ‘by the end of 2008′

Saturday 1st March 2008, 12:00AM GMT.

PLANS for a sex offenders register will go to the States by the end of the year, according to Home Affairs Minister Wendy Kinnard.

And the minister will push for £340,000 extra funding for 2009 to set up the Sex Offenders Register and a comprehensive vetting service for people trying to get jobs working with vulnerable adults and children.

Health and Education vet staff at the moment, and have access to a list of ‘unsuitable teachers’, but a new UK scheme set up by the Criminal Records Bureau starts in October under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act, and Senator Kinnard says Jersey needs to have access to it.

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