National Childcare Register

EDM number 657 in 1998-99, proposed by Martin Salter on 17/05/1999.

That this House notes the Government's stated intention to take all possible steps to protect children and young people; welcomes the action already taken by the Government in the development of the National Childcare Strategy; commends the Government on its recent advice for parents intending to employ nannies and on its support for the Child Protection Bill; which will help to exclude unsuitable people from working with children and young people; supports the current campaign by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to obliterate child abuse; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to strengthen the measures already taken by offering support to the National Childcare Register Joint Campaign Group and its constituent members in developing a national register which will reassure all agencies and individuals employing people to work with children and young people by providing them with full, checked information on registered applicants.

This motion has been signed by a total of 144 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.