{"id":868,"date":"2009-08-15T19:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T19:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2009-08-15T19:13:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T19:13:37","slug":"pubsub-for-child-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Pub\/Sub for Child Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went on a training course yesterday to learn more about the Independent Safeguarding Authority<\/a> (ISA). ISA is the public body that will be responsible for registering and vetting people who work with children. It was created by the Government in response to the Bichard Inquiry<\/a> that followed the Soham Murders. <\/p>\n

There was way too much covered in the course to fit in a single post, but there was one particular bit worth mentioning. <\/p>\n

The biggest limitation with the existing CRB (Criminal Records Bureau)<\/a> checks is that it’s a snapshot – a one-off check. <\/p>\n

It’s a piece of paper that tells you that the owner had no convictions at the time the paper was printed. But it doesn’t tell you if the owner went out and committed a crime the day after the paper was printed. If a CRB check isn’t repeated for a few years, it can be years before this is discovered. <\/p>\n

ISA registration is different. Once registered, someone is continually monitored. <\/p>\n

When an organisation employs someone (either as staff or as a volunteer) to work with children, they register an interest in that person with the ISA. Then if something relevant is identified about the person that would make them unsuitable to work with children, the organisation is notified. <\/p>\n

Although it wasn’t described as this, to me (after spending years working on WebSphere MQ<\/a> and WebSphere Message Broker<\/a>) it’s basically a move from polling to publish\/subscribe! <\/p>\n

Instead of submitting a CRB request every few years, schools, charities, volunteering organisations and so on can subscribe to receive messages about each of their employees and volunteers. <\/p>\n

Think of all the benefits that pub\/sub and push notification architectures have over polling approaches, only here it is being applied to child protection – making sure that organisations get the information they need to keep children safe. <\/p>\n

I have absolutely no idea how this is implemented within the ISA and\/or CRB. But regardless of whether or not this is done using IBM software, this is a very good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went on a training course yesterday to learn more about the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA). ISA is the public body that will be responsible for registering and vetting people who work with children. It was created by the Government in response to the Bichard Inquiry that followed the Soham Murders. There was way too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[239,238,241,406,405,242],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","tag-child-protection","tag-children","tag-crb","tag-criminal-records-bureau","tag-independent-safeguarding-authority","tag-isa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}