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Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [HL]

My Lords, this group of amendments clarifies considerably many aspects of the offences that were raised in your Lordships’ House. A pragmatic balance needs to be struck between the need to get the checks done before somebody starts work and implementing arrangements for supervised monitoring of the person who has started work if the check has not come through. I rather suspect that a number of employers and the IBB will have cause to be grateful for that measure when they have to do a lot of checks very quickly when the body is first set up. I hope that it does not all go horribly wrong. However, the balance is probably about right. I have two questions which have been suggested by the NSPCC. I shall be happy if the noble Lord prefers to respond to them in writing. First, what is his understanding of the role of regulators such as the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection in ensuring compliance with the Bill’s requirements through regulation and inspection? Secondly, how does he intend to ensure compliance monitoring of regulated activity providers in the community and voluntary sectors who come outside the remit of statutory regulation? Does he agree that that issue should be built into funding streams from government and statutory bodies?