Submitted on Thursday 13th January 2022
Rejected on Monday 17th January 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Amend Current Legislation Regarding Access to Enhanced DBS Checks
Re-examine access under safeguarding rules in The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 to include online social media platforms.
The Current Legislation does not make social media platforms that allow access to young children, vulnerable adults follow the same safe guarding rules offline require
Safeguarding Young Vulnerable Children Online
Protect Vulnerable people From Online Predators
DBS also maintains the Adults’ and Children’s Barred Lists that needs to be brought into line to ban Predictors from social media Platforms
Any Platform that can be monetized enters a contact with the content creator, that content creator needs to be proven to be of good character, as that content is seen by children, vulnerable adults, victims and could be used to entice children, vulnerable adults
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can see that you'd like to improve safety online for young people, but we're not sure what policy you'd like the Government to implement.
If you'd like the Government to require that social media influencers are DBS-checked, you'd have to be clear in your petition about exactly how this would work.
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