Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 89726
Voluntary Work: Insurance and Vetting
Tabled: 11 November 2025
Answered: 26 November 2025
Question
Mr Andrew Snowden
Conservative — Fylde
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of covering the cost of (a) insurance and (b) DBS checks for employers taking on volunteer workers.
Answer
Josh MacAlisterKeeping children safe could not be more important to this government, and schools and colleges as employers, play a critical role in this. We support them to do this through our robust safeguarding framework, ‘Keeping children safe in education’, which ...
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