Independent Safeguarding Authority
Members of the ISA Board have strategic oversite for the delivery and direction of the new vetting and barring proess. On 31.3.08 63 key staff from the Dept. for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) transferred out of the civil service to become public servants at the ISA.
The ISA will be administrating the PoVA, PoCA and List 99 of those barred from working with children and vulnerable adults.The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act was the legislation that enabled the creating of the ISA and run by the DCSF between November 2007 to the end of February 2008. In July 2008 they will be communicating with thousands of intermediary bodies to provide them with the information that they need to inform their own stakeholder audiences about the new scheme. This will be followed in October 2008 by running a major direct marketing campaign to target the employers and volunteer organisers who are going to be the first to put new recruits through the system.
In view of these changes please keep checking the ISA website at www.isa-gov.org for all the latest news, information sessions, downloads, legal guidance and so forth.
