Cloud software for better volunteer recruitment.
In this essay, the next in our series on the National Vetting Bureau (Children And Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 To 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as garda vetting – we are going to look at the National Vetting Bureau’s register of …Read More
In this essay, the next in our series on the National Vetting Bureau (Children And Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 To 2016 – the new Irish vetting legislation, known until now as garda vetting – we’re going to look at two aspects of the vetting legislation. First, …Read More
In this essay we take a look at a couple of situations that the vetting legislation specifically says fall outside of the remit of the vetting legislation. We look at family relationships, personal relationships, and also occasional assistance given by individuals. We look at the different …Read More
In last week’s essay we traced the winding path taken by the legislation from its genesis in a 2008 Joint Committee constitutional report on children, through to the heads of the bill in 2011, the bill becoming an Act in 2012, the stumbling blocks that the …Read More
In this next instalment in our series of essays on Garda Vetting and the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012-2016 (the “Act”), we’re going to take a walk along the path trodden by the Act in its legislative journey since 2011 up to …Read More
Scales of Justice
In our next series of essays, I am going to take us on a walk through of the National Vetting Bureau Act 2012 (the “Act”). Today’s essay will be a brief overview of this ground-breaking legislation, and sets out what we’ll be exploring …Read More
1. “AS FAR AS PRACTICABLE”Section 10 of the Children First Act 2015 creates a statutory duty upon organisations that provide services to children to ensure that those children are kept safe from harm while availing of the service provided by the organisation. In this essay we provide …Read More
Sorting the wheat from the chaff
In this essay we ask: does your organization seriously, fundamentally value the welfare of children? Is your sports club, charity or voluntary organization, the proverbial “wheat”? Or is it part of the “chaff”, that treats the welfare of children as …Read More
Paramount Pictures
Over the next few weeks we’re going to explore together the impact of the following statutory and non-statutory requirements which underpin the legal relationship of how clubs, charities and volunteer organisations are required to ensure that they are recruiting their volunteers in a safe …Read More
The coconut, on which JFK etched his SOS message, that took pride of place on JFK’s Presidential desk in the White House. Credti: JFK Presidential Library & Museum
Join us in the final Part of our 3 Part series of essays on what modern day managers …Read More
