What Happens When The CVS Disappears?

I have been writing for some time about the resource-wasting process of applying for an enhanced disclosure. Now I learn that my local Council for Voluntary Services is to dissolve after 49 years of operation. The reasons given must be familiar ones throughout the country. There are both insufficient trustees and a lack of funds. Many charitable groups are finding it difficult to recruit trustees following the legal changes that make them financially liable for mistakes/malefeasance by themselves or others.

The official disclosure website used to recommend that volunteers should apply for a disclosure through their local CVS. I don’t know what smaller bodies and charities are supposed to do about obtaining disclosures for their volunteers if local CVS disappear. It will be interesting to see if updated and useful advice appears on the website. Or if this will be another universal inconvenience with no clear path.

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