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Independent authority will administer two barred lists
Edited by Nick Adams: The new Vetting and Barring Scheme [VBS] recently came into effect in Wales. Stricter controls will now begin to replace current arrangements that determine who is suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The following increased safeguards have been introduced:
- it is now a criminal offence for barred individuals to apply to work with children or vulnerable adults in a wider–range of posts. Employers face fines of up to £5,000 if they fail to report an employee who harms or is a risk to children or vulnerable adults and face criminal sanctions if they employ a barred individual across a wider–range of work,
- the three current banning lists [POVA, POCA and List 99] will be replaced by the creation of two new barred lists administered by the Independent Safeguarding Authority [ISA] rather than several Government departments. From now on checks of these two lists can be made as part of an Enhanced Criminal Records Check,
- additional jobs and voluntary positions will be covered by the barring arrangements, including moderators of children’s internet chat rooms, and a large number of NHS staff,
- employers, social services and professional regulators have a duty to refer to the ISA any information, such as why they stopped or considered stopping an individual from working with vulnerable groups where they consider them to have caused harm or posed a risk.
In Wales a further safeguard has been to added to strengthen the VBS definitions and prevents a person who is barred as a result of the most serious crimes such as rape, murder or kidnapping from ever working or volunteering in controlled activity.
Visit the Welsh Assembly Government online at: www.wales.gov.uk.
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Race to find treatments and possible cures
Edited by Nick Adams: According to Cardiff University, a research team at the institute has recently discovered that two new genes, CLU and PICALM, are linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
Previously, one gene, APOE4, had been shown to be a risk factor.
Professor Julie Williams, chief scientific adviser to the Alzheimer's Research Trust at Cardiff University, said: “Both CLU and PICALM highlight new pathways that lead to Alzheimer's disease.
“CLU is a clusterin - a type of protein - which normally protects the brain in a variety of ways. Variation in this gene could remove this protection and contribute to Alzheimer's development. PICALM is important at synapses - connections between brain cells - and is involved in the transport of molecules into and inside of nerve cells, helping form memories and other brain functions.
“We know that the health of synapses is closely related to memory performance in Alzheimer's disease, thus changes in genes which affect synapses are likely to have a direct effect on disease development. This research is changing our understanding of what causes the common form of Alzheimer's disease and provides valuable new leads in the race to find treatments and possibly cures.
"It also shows that other genes can be identified using this method, and the group are already planning a larger study involving 60,000 people, which can be achieved within the next year.”
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Will also help expand cancer information system
Edited by Nick Adams: It has recently been confirmed that hospices and palliative care services across Wales are to receive £4 million in funds from the Welsh Assembly.
The Welsh Assembly stated that over half of the allocated amount will help to finance the clinical palliative and end-of-life care services provided by both the country’s hospices and NHS palliative care services.
The rest of the money will be used to help expand the 'cancer network information system Cymru', a computerised online clinical record system, which provides health professionals with quick access to key information on how to monitor, and care for, patients.
Another important area of development to the Assembly concerns the out-of-hours services; the aim is to make seven-day-a-week care more widely available and fairly distributed across Wales.
Extra support will be made available to patients, at home, as part of a managed clinical network system.
According to the Welsh Assembly, the services should be consultant-led, with support from multidisciplinary teams, which will include specialist palliative care nurses and other health professionals, with consultants on NHS contracts.
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