Ian has information about the future rolling out of the ISA "register if you want to work with children" scheme. From the Q&A doc online, this is what the ISA do:
The ISA will assess relevant information on individual applicants and, where they believe this indicates that the individual poses a risk, bar them from working in regulated activity with children and/or vulnerable adults. However, it is important to understand that in carrying out this function the ISA will not be barring every single individual with any kind of criminal conviction or based on other information known about them. Only those who pose an obvious risk will be barred. To gain a full picture of an individual's record employers will need to obtain a CRB check.
So to clarify, after 12th October 2009 if you want to work with young people you'll have to register yourself with the ISA, this is not a qualification and requires no training, rather it's just registering you on a system. If you then commits a serious crime that results in you being unregistered, they'll then notify everyone who you work with telling them this. So if you are an employer, you'll probably need to start registering new employees from the 12th October 2009 and getting your old ones through the system in the five years after that. IF you are an employee then once you're registered you're registered, and you shouldn't have to worry about it again and, unlike CRB's, shouldn't have to go through the process again and again (though they don't replace CRB's, CRB's will still be the only way to get all their criminal record as opposed to just a straight "yes or no" if they can work with kids).There's a super useful document online with questions and answers, but it's only in a word doc format, so I've copied it and saved it as an html file here
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