The Answer To Oxfam’s Safeguarding Problems Is Not Enhanced DBS Checks

Of all the things in the press recently about Oxfam, comments by the charity’s former head of safeguarding stood out. Helen Evans, who was head of safeguarding from 2012 to 2015, said that “children were being left alone with adults who hadn’t been criminal record checked”. This has led to questions being asked of Oxfam and other charity shops as to whether they do criminal record checks on their volunteers.Oxfam have said that “all 900 shop and deputy shop managers