Minister for education and young people Cathy Jamieson gave details of the Protection of Children (Scotland) Bill during a visit to the Molendinar Family Learning Centre in Glasgow last week. The Bill would create a List of Persons Unsuitable to Work with Children, to which employers would have to refer people if they had been sacked or moved as a result of unsuitable behaviour towards children, even if they had not been convicted of a criminal offence. The courts would refer someone if they were convicted of an offence which demonstrated their unsuitability to work with children.
The Bill makes it an offence for a person named on the list to continue working with children or to apply for a job to work with children.
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