Tim McLachlan, Chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) said the details of the case were “extremely concerning”.<\/p>\n
“A person on police bail with a condition to specifically not work with children should never have been cleared through the DBS system.<\/p>\n
“This has wider concerns beyond nurseries as schools, sports clubs, social care organisations and many more rely on the DBS to provide accurate and up-to-date information to help them make safe recruitment a reality.<\/p>\n
“We need to know how this individual was allowed through the net and what needs to change with the update service to make sure it cannot happen again.”<\/p>\n
West Yorkshire Police said in a statement: “The investigation has been reviewed as part of the complaints process and contact has been made with the Home Office about the DBS update service highlighting this particular case.<\/p>\n
“We have accepted and apologise for the fact that there could have been better communication with parents and guardians during the initial investigation.<\/p>\n
“We have identified this as an area of learning which we will address internally, and this has been fed back to complainants.”<\/p>\n
A government spokesperson said in a statement: “These crimes are absolutely sickening, and our thoughts remain with the families affected.<\/p>\n
“This predator should not have been allowed to work in a nursery setting.<\/p>\n
“We are urgently looking into the circumstances of this case so we can address the issues it has raised.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim McLachlan, Chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) said the details of the case were “extremely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}