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| Andrew Pope |
In July 2024, Andrew Pope began a campaign to make sure that all councillors receive DBS checks. He submitted a Freedom of Information request asking what the Council were doing when assessing councillors. They were not being done any more. So Andrew began the process of campaigning for councillors to have to have the DBS check.
Around 18 months later, the Council Governance Committee agreed. Andrew says:
"When I was first elected, I received a DBS check. But then it did not seem to be happening to new councillors that were then elected.
I made enquiries with the Head of Legal.
In 2024, I asked for DBS checks to be done again. Now they are."
