We’ve created a slide deck tutorial for football clubs on how to familiarise yourself with the new process of an applicant uploading your vetting forms to the new FAI system.
There are a lot of advantages to the new approach.
Clubs will need to ensure that volunteers follow the process, …Read More
Volunteer Recruitment
Vetting and the Self-Employed
Matthew Holmes is a practising barrister and has written for the Irish Times, the Bar Review, and the Law Society Gazette, amongst other publications. He is the author of the Nutshells on Administrative Law, the Nutshells on EU law, and the forthcoming Nutshells on …Read More
What are ‘excluded offences’ under the vetting legislation?
Caesar and Brutus. Romeo and Juliet. Sometimes two things are just inextricably linked to each other. And that’s the same in what we’re looking at today: “Section 14A” & “Schedule 3” – excluded offences under the vetting legislation.Section 14A & Schedule 3 depend on each other in …Read More
The work or activity that will trigger vetting
We’re continuing our dive into the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 – 2016. There are three Schedules to the vetting legislation. In today’s essay, we look at Schedule 1.The Schedules exist for one main purpose. People and organisations carry out a wide …Read More
It shouldn’t happen to a vetting officer
A version of this essay by Matthew Holmes first appeared in the Law Society Gazette and is republished with the kind permission of the editor of the Law Society Gazette. Matthew Holmes is a practising barrister, lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) …Read More
Volunteer Recruitment – Building the Team
LOVING YOUR VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT PAPERWORKPolicies and procedures.Don’t you just love ‘em?!Well, of course, most people don’t!(And, being honest, most people don’t even read them). But, for my sins, I’m a lawyer, and here’s a confession: I’ve always actually thoroughly enjoyed reading and writing such documents. Why so? Because out …Read More
