Letter to LSP's re Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA)

15th March 2010
To all Language Service Professionals,
Dear all,

Ref: Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA)
From July 2010 you can apply to be registered under the new Independent Safeguarding Authority scheme.
If you work or want to work with children or vulnerable adults from November 2010, you will need to apply to be registered with the ISA. If you are self-employed – as an Interpreter, for example – you will need to apply yourself. You will be able to do this through the ISA website http://www.isa-gov.org.uk/ as the ISA vetting service is phased in.
If you are already employed to work with children or vulnerable adults and have had a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check, you will need to apply for ISA registration in due course. Details of how and when you should apply will become available on the above site.
To register, you will need to pay a small one-off fee. Once you have paid for registration, you will be issued with a personal ISA Registration Number and you remain on the ISA database even if you change employers.
ISA registration does not mean that your details will be made available to the general public. Only employers will be able to access your information – and only after you give them your ISA Registration Number. Employers will only be able to check that you are in fact ISA-registered. Only ISA case workers and the police will have access to information that is held about you.
If you have not been registered by the time the new legislation takes effect in October 2010, then we will not be able to use you in any situations where there is a child or vulnerable adult involved.

I hope that this information is useful to you. Please ensure that you are registered well ahead of deadline, to ensure that we can continue to use your services.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you require and further information.


Thanks and best regards


Richard Durrant

Business Development Manager
Silent Sounds UK Ltd
36a Bilton Road
Perivale
Middlesex UB6 7DS

Tel: 020 8998 5008
Fax: 020 8998 5009
Website: www.silent-sounds.co.uk