Can the NHS make checks against the Vulnerable Adults List?
Yes. Under the terms of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, NHS employers are now legally permitted to carry out checks on those individuals working in regulated activity with vulnerable adults from 12 October 2009. Q16. Do all eligible staff need to be checked retrospectively? No. Where there are specified easements for doctors on rotational training programmes, agency staff and certain other highly mobile staff to have periodic checks (as outlined in the Criminal Record Check standard), then this requirement remains unchanged. Periodic checks apply to these staff purely because the frequency by which they are required to move from position to position, far outweighs the element of risk and therefore the normal trigger for a CRB check each and every time they move, has been relaxed. Any decision taken locally to administer retrospective checks for other staff groups must be proportionate to risk. Q17.
