Sexual Offences: Registration
Commons · Question 48817 · Tabled 28 Apr 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 7 May 2025
Question
Asked by Gregory Stafford
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to review the (a) criteria and (b) process under which information on sex offenders is disclosed to the public under the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme.
Answer
Answered by Jess Phillips, 7 May 2025
The Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, introduced in 2011, allows members of the public to make an application to police for information about a person who has contact with a child.To capture better data in order to review the efficacy of the Scheme, a...