PVG Scheme - Voluntary Organisations providing early learning and childcare for pre-school children no longer have to pay for a PVG check.
in NEWS AND INTEREST October 19, 2015
On 1 July 2015 the anomaly in the PVG legislation which prevented certain volunteers benefitting from the PVG fee waiver was removed. The volunteers affected were those doing unpaid and voluntary regulated work for a voluntary organisation solely providing early learning and childcare for pre school children. The change in the law means that the pre-school groups are now ‘Qualifying Voluntary Organisations’ (QVO). As such volunteers doing regulated work for the affected groups will no longer have to pay the fee for a PVG check in connection with that volunteering.
The legislation also provides that an application can be made for a refund of a PVG fee paid between 28 February 2011 and 30 June 2015 in connection with unpaid and voluntary regulated work for an organisation which would have been a QVO, had it not been excluded from the PVG fee waiver due to being within the meaning of ‘school’. The refund will only be paid upon application to Disclosure Scotland before 1 January 2016. The application will need to show evidence that the PVG scheme membership application or PVG disclosure request was made solely in relation to doing unpaid and voluntary regulated work in an organisation providing early learning and child care. Refund application form.
This change in the PVG legislation only relates to unpaid and voluntary regulated work in voluntary organisations providing early learning and childcare for pre school children. The change does not affect any other sector. For further information please contact the Disclosure Scotland helpline on 0870 609 6006.
17 July 2015
Disclosure Scotland
http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/news/index.htm
The legislation also provides that an application can be made for a refund of a PVG fee paid between 28 February 2011 and 30 June 2015 in connection with unpaid and voluntary regulated work for an organisation which would have been a QVO, had it not been excluded from the PVG fee waiver due to being within the meaning of ‘school’. The refund will only be paid upon application to Disclosure Scotland before 1 January 2016. The application will need to show evidence that the PVG scheme membership application or PVG disclosure request was made solely in relation to doing unpaid and voluntary regulated work in an organisation providing early learning and child care. Refund application form.
This change in the PVG legislation only relates to unpaid and voluntary regulated work in voluntary organisations providing early learning and childcare for pre school children. The change does not affect any other sector. For further information please contact the Disclosure Scotland helpline on 0870 609 6006.
17 July 2015
Disclosure Scotland
http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/news/index.htm