Do employers (i.e. ecclesias, camps, youth weeks, etc) have to register?
No. Initially a wrong impression was given that all employers had to register. Ecclesias will not have to register, nor will camps, or any other organisation. So arranging brethren, for instance, will not have to register unless either. • They are also directly involved in providing services to children or vulnerable adults, in which case they register like anybody else, or … • … they are a ‘Defined Office Holder’. This may affect, for instance, the trustees of children’s charities. What an ecclesia or camp will have to do is to ‘register an interest’ in each of its youth leaders. What this means is that if subsequently someone is barred by the ISA from working with children, the ecclesia will be informed. To do this an ecclesia will have to provide the individual’s registration number and date of birth, and it will require the individual’s consent. ‘Registration of interest’ is now being referred to as subscribing (although not exclusively).
