Written questions

Voluntary Work: Insurance and Vetting

Commons · Question 89726 · Tabled 11 Nov 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 26 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

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.

Answer

Answered by Josh MacAlister, 26 Nov 2025

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 ...