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Legal Terms -children’s barred list
a roster that names those unfit for volunteer or paid labor in child care settings due to pertinent past convictions, warnings, etc. The Disclosure and Barring Service of the Home Office currently has possession of the list, which was previously kept by the Independent Safeguarding Authority. The Protection of Children Act 1999 was substantially extended and replaced by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, which mandates that all applicants for employment in specific professions—like teaching—have their names checked against the list. The act of applying for a job from which one has been excluded is illegal. Anybody on the list has the right to appeal to the Upper Tribunal. A comparable list prohibits individuals from dealing with adults who are considered vulnerable. The Protection of Children Act, or PoCA list, was the previous name for the


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