Question follow-through · 89726
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.
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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
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.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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