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Voluntary Work: Insurance and Vetting

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.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
13 Nov 2025
Answer
26 Nov 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 13 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Keeping 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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