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New safeguards will protect agency workers and vulnerable people and revise out-dated provisions.

Publication: M2 Presswire
Publication Date: 28-NOV-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1329 words
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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 November 2003-UK Government: New safeguards will protect agency workers and vulnerable people and revise out-dated provisions(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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New safeguards requiring employment agencies to vet temps who work with vulnerable groups were announced by Employment Relations Minister Gerry Sutcliffe today.

At the same time, out-dated bureaucratic burdens will be lifted from agencies.

Agencies supplying temps to work with children, the elderly and the infirm will be required to carry out additional checks - including obtaining copies of relevant qualifications, two references, and a responsibility to take all reasonable steps to confirm that an individual is not unsuitable.

If new, adverse information comes to light, they will have to withdraw the temporary worker or inform the employer if the worker has been supplied on a permanent basis.

The move is part of a series of measures being introduced to update the regulation of employment agencies. They will come into force next April and will affect more than half a million people working through 17,000 agencies and employment businesses across Great Britain.

The measures also include: - agencies placing actors, models and extras no longer being allowed to charge upfront fees before they find them work;...

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